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

The absence of things really helped to start to put me in a box in a way — not the negative connotation of that — like putting the costume on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

But another connotation of a family fight is that the argument stays behind closed doors and outsiders really don’t know what the issues are, Englander noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

In Nahuatl, the words almost shimmer with connotation: what was true was well grounded, stable and immutable, enduring above all.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Sellers’s “talent was diabolical,” writes Mr. Lewis, embracing the full connotations of the word.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

The word had connotations of dirt and slovenliness and dishonor.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck