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

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 so much of modern cinema, “fun” has replaced “safe,” a new adjective with a better connotation meant to save middling films from themselves.

From Salon ● May 27, 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

Indeed the word zombie, which previously carried Caribbean connotations, is never even spoken by Romero’s characters; the creatures are referred to as flesh-eating ghouls instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

Its romantic connotations, however, were believed to have been influenced by the dining culture of the early 1900s.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026

When the wooden door is up, the assemblage is transformed from a neutral into a loaded image, bringing out the nascent connotations of the target.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson