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.
You can definitely refer to yourself as a fashionista, even if you're male.
Many of those seniors don't like "government spending" -- but by that they are definitely not referring to their Social Security or Medicare.
(Allied Health Professional) Just generalised feedback about the whole group and what's come out of it… If I see that someone I've referred has got something out of it, then [I'll] definitely keep referring.
Furthermore, the partial femur was too incomplete to definitely be referred to Megalosaurus and not a different, contemporary theropod.
"Mort, definitely," Susan Patricof said, referring to Mr. Zuckerman.
"Oh, Betty Parsons, definitely," she says, referring to the pioneering postwar New York gallery owner.
"It definitely hurt," James said, referring to the loss, "but we got to adjust.
"Like we've said from Day 1, with us three, it can definitely work," Rice said, referring to Houston, Sprewell, and himself.
