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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

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

Later, on third-and-one, Garbers surged and spun his way for six yards before emphatically thrusting his arm forward to denote the first down.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 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