denote

Example Sentences

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It can be be used to denote the southern extent of the aurora.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 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

Inside were the numerous trade certificates he’d earned over the years, along with letters of recommendation and business receipts, which he kept in neat stacks held together by different colored binders to denote the month.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

"Pathogen X is a term used to denote an unidentified or unspecified pathogen," the authors write.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2024

Each non-Jewish prisoner had a colored triangle by his number to denote his “crime.”

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren