connotation

He often spoke of striving, which he meant as searching or seeking, but the word also took on the old-fashioned connotation of uplifting the race by uplifting yourself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"The hippocampus is important for our ability to distinguish between similar but different memories and separate the emotional connotation of past memories and current events," Dupont says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

While taking on more than $100,000 in debt can have a negative connotation, at the time it may have seemed like a sound financial decision.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026

The term carries an intensely pejorative connotation in the group and speaks to the imbalance of power between the singer and his fawning entourage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

"Project Elrond" had taken on a dark connotation throughout the Space Center, veiled in secrecy.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

From the second I heard about “asynchronous” studies, I thought of the word’s negative connotations: not happening or existing simultaneously, out of sync, allochronic, unsynchronized.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

“The horse elevates the art; symbolically, it carries connotations of elegance and nobility,” González said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Comey has said he did not realize that “86,” a slang term for getting rid of something, had violent connotations.

From Slate ● May 1, 2026

But she added that she is aware the term has taken on some negative connotations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

For the moment, though, let us just note that there is a word which, for Protestants at least, had many of the connotations of ‘revolution’, and that word is ‘reformation’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton