Sentence examples for it is a nod to from inspiring English sources

It is a nod to the team's Soviet past and its long association with the Interior Ministry, which Dzerzhinsky once headed.

It is a nod to reality.

"It is a nod to the lizard brain," Stephan said.

"It is a nod to better urban planning for both pedestrians and autos," he said.

As for the acronyms, that's pretty fantastic if you're right and it is a nod to activist movements.

It is a nod to Hobbes's view that the life of man is, on the whole, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short".

It was a nod to Bristol's merchant trading past.

It's a nod to "Batucada" but also, more to the point, a vow of intent.

It's a nod to a hook-up Khan has in the pipeline.

It was a nod to his humble origins as a joiner's son.

… It was a nod to the 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party.