connote
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Restomod SUVs have price tags that connote luxury, but owners say they also demonstrate a different type of status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
While the color of fresh olive oil does not connote quality, the color change as it sits on a shelf does.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
The rulings were handed down, and timed, in a display designed to connote the announcement of sea change.
From Slate ● May 7, 2023
A dog bugging its eyes to show the whites is a phenomenon called “whale eye” that may connote distress.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
If you like granite, you might like the house; but even if you don’t, “granite” certainly doesn’t connote a fixer-upper.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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For many people, “all-inclusive” connotes sugary cocktails, forced socializing and buffet-style dining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Prediction marketers tell courts that the CFTC’s lack of objections connotes tacit approval.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
Moreover, this assistance is limited to “federal purposes,” a term that typically connotes the protection of federal personnel or property.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025
But even with the ocean overlook, it’s too rustic, cozy and deceptively modest for the geologic or ego-logical footprint that “compound” connotes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Never believe this bird connotes Jade whorls of carven commonness: Nor as from ordinary throats Slides his sharp song in ice-strung stress.
From A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle by Margaret Widdemer
For a half-century, the Wasserman name connoted power—in Hollywood and in Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Our house didn’t connote individuality any more than a GHW does; if anything, it connoted that we fit in—that we lived in the same kind of house as lots of our neighbors.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
It did, but this is a spinoff of the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck hit anthology series, its differences connoted in the last few letters of the shows’ titles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
In Maya cosmology, Dr. Scherer explained, flint connoted warfare and the sun or sky; obsidian, darkness and sacrifice.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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The RF’s is a “buttress” roof form, connoting the “flying” buttresses of Gothic architecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
If you think you’ve got a better word connoting misery that begins with the letter “B,” contact your nearest headline writer immediately.
From Slate ● May 14, 2024
Red flag warnings, connoting the potential for “extreme” fire behavior, blanket most of Montana and Idaho, western Wyoming, eastern Oregon and southeast Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
“You’re connoting that Spanish is less important or complex; you don’t speak Spanish but you can speak Spanish — just add an O to everything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
There was a screen, connoting dying, around Johnny’s bed.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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