denote

Wilde “read” the water, pointing out the seams on the surface that denote shifting currents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

As part of her quest to revive N|uu, she and her granddaughter, Claudia Snyman, established a school for the language, which uses special characters in script to denote the verbal clicks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

If you think those pies denote happiness, you would be right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025

Denmark's largest grocery store operator, Salling Group, recently introduced a symbol, a black star, on pricing labels to denote European brands.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

The paper, with dozens of tables and arcane symbols to denote traits and variants, was challenging even for statisticians.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The school also plans to add a plaque to the facility that denotes that it stands on the ground where Brian Kennedy Field once stood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Most often “the Renaissance” denotes the period of European history between the years 1400 and 1600, which witnessed a vital recovery of the literary genres, artistic ideals and philosophical visions of classical antiquity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

It denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

The process involves sending the card to a grading company who analyse it for signs of wear and then award it a graded score, usually out of 10, which denotes its quality and potential value.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

This, Champollion reasoned, very probably also denotes Ptolemy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

This zone of extreme pessimism is denoted by the shaded area at the bottom of the chart above.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

About 100 feet away, a metal post denoted the park’s boundary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

"The Premier League's dominance is just denoted as a matter of fact," Honigstein said.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

Mr. Robbins returns in the last play, which gives the evening its title, again on a first date, with a character denoted only as Girl, played with cool poise by Dylan Gelula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Enthroned there under his hat, he observed our household through his un-glasses and swished the animal-tail fly swatter that denoted his station in life.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Now Andy Burnham has brought her back into government with a big job running the Cabinet Office and the title of first secretary of state, denoting her senior rank.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Code Purple" alerts, denoting air quality considered very unhealthy for everyone, not just at-risk groups, blanketed much of the city as well as the wider region, including neighboring Virginia and Maryland.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

In early scenes, he has a small curved line denoting a chubby chin, which changes over time to straight lines on each cheek, narrowing his face when he is old and infirm.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

In the northern city of Zanjan, thousands responded to chants memorializing the late Khamenei with the refrain: “We’re your followers, Seyyed Mojtaba,” using an honorific denoting a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Write and define adjectives denoting relating to, like, or being, from the following nouns:—

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton