denotation
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She aims to go back to Malawi on one of the buses the Malawian consulate has been arranging with the help of denotations for its desperate citizens to leave Durban.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026
Definition writing is especially useful for explaining and interpreting terms, ideas, or concepts that are easily or often confused or that have meanings beyond their denotations.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
By denotations, the actual real-world reference of a given word or phrase.
From Salon • May 5, 2021
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings remains the only atomic denotations in warfare in history.
From US News • May 10, 2016
There are Londons in various latitudes, and, no doubt, many Napoleon Buonapartes in Louisiana; and each name has in its several denotations an altogether different suggestiveness.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
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