Draft and Reference

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Draft verb - To pick especially for required military service.

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Reference and draft are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reference" instead a verb "Draft".

Nearby Words: drafted, drafting, draftee, drafter, draftsman

Reference verb - Refer to.

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Draft and reference are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Draft" instead a verb "Reference".

good	good draft	good reference
original	original draft	original reference
single	single draft	single reference
obvious	obvious draft	obvious reference
Other adjectives: actual, little, slight, bad, early, later, last, several, earliest, earlier.

In the earlier draft of the comic, David Morgan-Mar kept flip-flopping on whether the punchline should reference Heisenberg or Schrödinger.

Source: Schrödinger's Gun
Gareth would pop a reference in, send the draft to Rusty, and it'd come back with another one, and so forth.

Source: Recap / Doctor Who S30 E7 "The Unicorn and the Wasp"
For Doom the Bell Tolls Foreshadowing: The reference to sunflowers was supposed to be foreshadowing for "Terror Firma", but the sunflower plot of that episode was cut in an early draft.

Source: Recap / Big Finish Doctor Who 063 Caerdroia

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