denote

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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

"Iran," however, is rooted in the word "Aryan," meaning "Land of the Aryans," and has been used locally since the Sassanian era to denote the broader realm of the Persian empires.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

The Babylonians had no way to denote which column a written symbol was in; T could represent 1, 60, or 3,600.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife