It sounds like you are refering to our
Slots and Strips.
You can use those to reference any articy:draft object in a template, here is a zone template from our demo project "Maniac Manfred"
As you can see, the property for "If condition is true" is in this instance of the template refering to the dialogue "The Therapist".
Strips work almost the same, but instead of a single object you can reference as many as you want.
For Dictionary we unfortunately don't have a solution yet, but there are workarounds using templates for the objects inside the strip.
Hope that answers your question
Best regards
Nico