denotes
Example Sentences
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She notes how use of the term denotes “superior flavor and nutritional content,” offering baladi butter and home-raised baladi meats as examples of products preferred over those imported or factory-farmed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Rather, 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
And just as words and their meaning can impose a certain reality, the opposite also can be true: A word’s connotations can evolve alongside the things it denotes.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
It denotes declines in physiological reserves and resilience following stressors like illness, injury or surgery.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024
It denotes the first fever of human pair bonding.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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