Definition of "this"

Hey, you know what's got two thumbs and really likes brownies? This guy!

1999, “Garage Sale”, in That '70s Show, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Michael Kelso (Ashton Kutcher)

I am no longer your little naïve toy. I am a woman. All woman. And this woman is tired of your crap.

2005, Anita Foster Lovely, Betrayals, Philadelphia, P.A.: Xlibris, page 165

"You'll find another way. This girl is done." Hayden let his gun fall to the ground. "You can shoot me if you want. Its your call."

2010, Stephen Jay Schwartz, Beat, New York, N.Y.: Forge Books, page 333

Right, boys, as much fun as this night has been, this girl is tired, so I'm gonna hit the hay.

2017, Samantha Towle, Breaking Hollywood, London: Headline Eternal, page 205

"As far as I can tell, there's been no journalistic interest in these basic issues of why Wikipedia editors make the decisions they do, and how they give effect to them, despite the fact the announcement of the ban was basically worldwide news," wrote Reddit user ronsmith7. Well, ronsmith7, today is your lucky day because this journalist is interested in those issues.

2021 July 1, Stephen Harrison, “Wikipedia's War on the Daily Mail”, in Slate‎, archived from the original on 2023-06-04

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars […]

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.

2001, James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology, page 151