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“According to court records, he said he had used the term to connote ‘a person who is fearless, mentally strong and tough,’ in the same vein that players themselves used the term in referring to one another,” James wrote, along with co-author Buzz Bissinger, in a book excerpt that appeared in Vanity Fair in 2009.

She used it for emphasis, to connote dismissiveness and to demonstrate exasperation.

It appears Trump perceives sadness or depression as emotional conditions that connote weakness; in his effort to make the record show instead that he was doing the opposite of what a beta male would do, he is obligated to say that instead of not eating, he was eating all sorts of things, probably including steaks, big hamburgers, bacon, and parts of a used muffler.

Twitter was a good name, even if the site didn’t connote positive things for many people.

Indian, for example, is a historical reference used to connote barbarism to justify enslaving Indigenous people during the colonial era — settlers equated it to savagery while seizing more land and federal policies invoked it as a racist concept in the 19th century, Ellis said.