How to Use transference in a Sentence

transference

noun
Definition of transferencenext
  • Other than that, Dobs says that the rate of transference is pretty low.
    — Alexis Jones, Marie Claire, 30 Nov. 2018
  • And Ogunbowale, the first college athlete on the show, is a master class in transference.
    — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • Arm's complaints are about the scope and transference of the work done under Nuvia's ALA license.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2022
  • It’s supposed to bridge the gap between what’s on stage and who’s in the audience, and you’re supposed to feel that transference of energy.
    — Jacquinn Sinclair, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • There comes a time in many lives when a kind of matter transference takes place in the relationship between parent and child.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • What’s there is a transference of community spirit, passed from one person to the next.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Infants under 3 months of age have more gold in their hair than older children and adults due to a transference from their mother’s breast milk.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Pence seems keenly aware of the limits of the MAGA movement’s transference, let alone his turn-key ability to harness it.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Tai Chi is a martial art that emphasizes the weight transference to improve balance and body awareness.
    — Lake County News-Sun, 21 May 2018
  • To adjust our language to account for transference could be the first step toward a collective act of growing up.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • It’s that energy transference with me and the audience.
    — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2022
  • To me, that’s a transference of his personal philosophy about his own ego.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • In the face of these dark facts, who can avoid pondering some sort of grim transference of inner torment across generations?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 June 2018
  • What ensues is a sort of triple transference: as if Felipe, Iquela and Claudia could heal their old wounds, could purge the trauma in their pasts by bringing Paloma’s mother to rest.
    — Sean McCoy, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • A lot of it has to do with how therapy works and the concept of transference with people projecting onto the personhood of the therapist.
    — Kovie Biakolo, ELLE, 11 June 2022
  • The transference of emotion from the real to the programmable—a sort of technology most of us hardly understand—may not be so far off after all.
    — Jordan Hoffman, HWD, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The first psychoanalyst is still, more than 80 years after his death, a transference figure.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There was a suggestion that a sort of transference had occurred, a blurring of the lines between the real person and the fake, a sense that Artur Samarin actually was Asher Potts.
    — Daniel Riley, GQ, 1 May 2018
  • In removing the reliance on data transference to the cloud, edge devices pose very little risk to consumers’ privacy.
    — Mark Lippett, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • According to Freud, transference reveals much about what is going on in the patient’s unconscious.
    — 1843, 26 June 2020
  • Nevertheless, some form of transference did take place.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The domestication of animals in the Middle East and Europe allowed for the transference of diseases to humans.
    — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 5 Aug. 2019
  • This relationship literally connects the mind of Athena with the mind of Telemachus—there is a real transfer of thought from one to the other, and that transference is embodied by Mentor.
    — B.r.j. O'Donnell, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Fowler also pointed to another study about knee restraints and transference of weight to the body, based on an experiment using dummies.
    — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The extent of this year’s train of transmission is not yet clear, but regulations require poultry and wild birds be kept separated to limit the chance of transference.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This version mimics the clamshell exercise, with more transference to running since this exercise is performed standing up on your feet.
    — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Unlike the interpretive transference of a drawing, or the abstract data of a diagram, the camera was clear and direct, a vehicle for proof.
    — Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
  • In early Europe, gloves were often given out as gifts to signify land transference or to bestow favoritism.
    — Jennifer Barger, National Geographic, 7 July 2020
  • Another consideration is that perhaps the common language of idea transference that makes these memes work so well took time to evolve across platforms.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 15 May 2018
  • Every textile, no matter who designs it and who weaves it, is therefore both a transference of knowledge — and a transformation itself.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021

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