denote
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There were also two yellow special marks to denote the speed restrictions in the area.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
She called them unicorns to denote their exceptional rareness.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Before long, Ms. Kobza notes, a new term entered the English vocabulary to denote an “assembly of maskers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
To denote the passage of time and fallibility of memory, Veloso shifted the way he shot the character in each era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
It was he who first used the word Cosmos to denote a well-ordered and harmonious universe, a world amenable to human understanding.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The school also plans to add a plaque to the facility that denotes that it stands on the ground where Brian Kennedy Field once stood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Originally the symbol for Maybach-Motorenbau—a maker of sternly grand luxury cars in Germany before World War II—the monogram now denotes Mercedes-Maybach, the sub-brand launched by Stuttgart in 2014 to compete against Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
In French, matière denotes not only physical matter but abstract conceptions such as fields of study and aesthetic phenomena such as the surface of paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
It denotes "significant impacts" for the health and social care services.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
This, Champollion reasoned, very probably also denotes Ptolemy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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This zone of extreme pessimism is denoted by the shaded area at the bottom of the chart above.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
About 100 feet away, a metal post denoted the park’s boundary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
"The Premier League's dominance is just denoted as a matter of fact," Honigstein said.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Mr. Robbins returns in the last play, which gives the evening its title, again on a first date, with a character denoted only as Girl, played with cool poise by Dylan Gelula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
As you can see, making smaller and smaller rectangles—whose widths, denoted by the symbol Δx, go to zero—makes the value closer and closer to 32, the true value for the area of the triangle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
"Symbolic marriage certificate" reads the document, with a special space denoting "paw print of your furry friend."
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 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
Without a letter denoting a political party next to their name on the ballot, independent candidates have historically gotten lost in the mix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
Although the girls wear jeans, denoting freedom, they aren’t as noisy as they used to be; there are no chants, no catcalls.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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