what is the recommended way to query an array of references?

what is the recommended way to query an array of references? For example right now I have a field

articles

of type array of elements with type

article

and right now I'm doing this:
but it forces me to have everything nested under

article

which I'd like to avoid if possible

This will do the trick
😀

This will do the trick
😀

thanks! knew there had to be a concise solution there 🙂