It can be argued, for example, that, whereas the past tense form in English (in simple sentences or the main clause of complex sentences) definitely refers to the past, the so-called present tense form is more neutral with respect to temporal reference: it is nonpast in the sense that it fails to mark the time as past, but it does not mark it as present.
"I definitely referred to having a new kind of virginity once I had a vagina," she said.
Mammoth Mountain, California When Mammoth first opened in 1965, the name definitely referred to its mascot Wooly Mammoth and not to the amount of terrain you could ski.
A back injury means that I'm getting the bus to the office at the moment, a bus that I definitely do not refer to mentally as the Broom Wagon.
So here's my call to action to both men and women -- don't call women "basic," don't call us "bitches," and definitely do not refer to us "basic bitches".
But if you do, definitely don't refer to it as "my comedy thing/skits/sketch/hobby". If you think it is so trivial then don't ask about it.
From Lyn Gardner's blog (30 December 2015): The abolition of the death penalty is at the heart of Martin McDonagh's play, and the title definitely doesn't just refer to Albert Pierrepoint and Harry Allen, Britain's last hangmen, who appear in McDonagh's play in a fictionalised form.
Furthermore, the partial femur was too incomplete to definitely be referred to Megalosaurus and not a different, contemporary theropod.
Many of those seniors don't like "government spending" -- but by that they are definitely not referring to their Social Security or Medicare.
This is, at least, not wrong.But in its two word-choice suggestions, Grammarly went disastrously off the rails.No, I definitely did not want to refer to South Africa's "wholesome rule" or "ethical rule" here.
