An interesting free relative clause

May 18, 2007, The New York Times, “Violence Continues in Gaza”:

Two rockets fired from Gaza had landed near Sderot, and the government bused many residents to hotels in what it refused to call an evacuation.

Interesting how this headless relative clause doesn’t technically contain the information required to identify the referent, but through pragmatic inference you can.

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