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TO BE ABOUT SOMETHING

I briefly referred to this study in my introduction.

Synonyms and examples

be about What is the story about?have (got) to do with What's that got to do with it?relate to That relates to what I was saying earlier about the need for reform.concern formal The film concerns the complicated nature of marriage.cover We will cover the passive voice later in the course.deal with We will deal with the use of antidepressants in chapter three.treat There is too much variety in how the election results are treated by different newspapers.discuss The final chapter will discuss the relevance of these findings for clinical practice. Go to the thesaurus article about these synonyms and antonyms of refer to.

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aboutregardingconcerningin/with regard toin connection withon Learn more If you talk, write, speak, etc. about someone or something, you are identifying that person or thing as the subject of your conversation or piece of writing. You can also say that a piece of writing, a conversation, etc. is about something.
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MENTION

Synonyms

mentionallude tospeak of brieflytouch uponnamespecifycitedisclosemake knowndivulgehint atintimateimplyinsinuatestateobserveremarktellsaytell ofreportrecountnarrate

Antonyms

omitbe silent aboutforgetneglectdisregardslightignoredropsuppress

QUOTE

Synonyms

quoteciterepeatextractretellexcerptnameadduceexemplifyparaphraseinstancerecallreproducerecollect

CITE

Synonyms

citeallude tospecifyquotementionnotebring forwardindicategive as exampleadvancepresentexemplifydocumentenumerate

Antonyms

ignoredisregardconcealkeep secret

TOUCH

Synonyms

touchmentiondiscuss brieflydeal with in passingallude tobroachhint atbear uponconcernpertain tonotecite

Antonyms

ignoredisregardoverlookpass overskipomitleave outrejectslight

APPERTAIN

Synonyms

relate toapply toconcernbe proper totouch uponbear uponappertainbelong tobe part ofpertain tobe characteristic ofinhere in

Antonyms

be unrelatedbe irrelevanthave no bearing upon

CONSULT

Synonyms

consultinquire ofask advice ofseek counsel fromseek the opinion oftake into accountconsiderregardhave an eye to

Antonyms

ignoredisregardbypass
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UK /ˈæɡ.ə.ni ˌɑːnt/ US /ˈæɡ.ə.ni ˌænt/

a person, usually a woman, who gives advice to people with personal problems, especially in a regular magazine or newspaper article

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