denote
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Much like Porsche’s use of the word “Turbo” to denote its fastest electric cars, Subaru’s calling it “Symmetrical AWD” seems naff, even a bit underhanded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
This can denote a fleeting quality, a trend to pass us by, not unlike the evolution of photography and videography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
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 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
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They have questioned whether the government can provide enough water to help cool data centers in a city the World Resources Institute denotes as under “extremely high” water stress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
In French, matière denotes not only physical matter but abstract conceptions such as fields of study and aesthetic phenomena such as the surface of paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Their goal in their personal work is to combine theme park-like art direction with scrappy, budget-friendly immersive theater, a term that typically denotes some level of active participation on the part of the guest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
It denotes "significant impacts" for the health and social care services.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
This, Champollion reasoned, very probably also denotes Ptolemy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Their rates of change—their fluxions—are denoted by and x respectively.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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These are the most common type of sentence, denoting the maximum time the offender could spend in custody, although the whole time might not necessarily be spent in prison.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Symbolic marriage certificate" reads the document, with a special space denoting "paw print of your furry friend."
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 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
The death certificate for Katherine Elizabeth Hartley, which was obtained by TMZ, includes a field denoting how the injury occurred.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Down the walls were lines denoting the breaks in the mirrors.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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