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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

Two official signs, placed by the city, denote the location’s significance.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

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

Pangenetics seemed an obvious choice—extending de Vries’s use of the word pangene to denote the units of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The phrase "that dog in them" is common slang that usually denotes a fierce drive.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Most often “the Renaissance” denotes the period of European history between the years 1400 and 1600, which witnessed a vital recovery of the literary genres, artistic ideals and philosophical visions of classical antiquity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

It denotes the first fever of human pair bonding.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Snapped in 1988, the photo shows a time he refers to as his “cholo” era, denoted by his subtle pencil mustache and slicked-back hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

When parking spots are scarce, supercar drivers often take to loading zones, bus stops and other spaces denoted with double yellow lines—the British marker of “no parking.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

This zone of extreme pessimism is denoted by the shaded area at the bottom of the chart above.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

In its original form, the "blue check" on X denoted a user who was independently verified by the platform as a news source, celebrity or other notable figure.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

Their rates of change—their fluxions—are denoted by and x respectively.

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

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

"Code Purple" alerts, denoting air quality considered very unhealthy for everyone, not just at-risk groups, blanketed much of the city as well as the wider region, including neighboring Virginia and Maryland.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

During her morning news conference, she seemed to mock some of the U.S. evidence, including hand-written ledgers allegedly denoting payoffs to Mexican politicians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

Write and define adjectives denoting abounding in, having the quality of, from the following nouns:—

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton