valence
Example Sentences
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When we talk about something in economic terms, it really doesn’t have much moral valence.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
Audiences from all backgrounds found valence to a story that I found to be more about assimilation than antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
They talk to Professor Jack Balkin about its religious valence, and Saul Cornell about originalism’s first major constitutional triumph in Heller.
From Slate • May 4, 2024
Researchers then manipulated the valence weighting bias tool for one group in a way that led participants to weigh positive and negative signals in a more balanced way.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024
Egged on by scheming courtiers and generals, relations between Atawallpa and Washkar spent several years swinging through the emotional valence from concealed suspicion to overt hostility.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
