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The “game manager” label carries a negative connotation, but Smith is one of the NFL’s best at protecting the ball.
Washington football preview: Alex Smith on track to start vs. Eagles with playoffs on the line | Nicki Jhabvala | January 2, 2021 | Washington PostEven the word audit itself has a lot of negative connotations, and that’s understandable.
The key to future election security starts with a roll of the dice | Bobbie Johnson | December 16, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe terms diverged when we filtered just for ones with negative connotations.
Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested | Geoffrey Fowler, Heather Kelly | December 10, 2020 | Washington Post
Whilst only 7% of queries will be impacted in initial roll-out, further expansion of this new passage indexing system could have much bigger connotations than one might first suspect.
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT? | Dawn Anderson | October 29, 2020 | Search Engine LandThis is not an example of AI taking away jobs and that more negative connotations that you get when you talk about AI and business.
How AI will revolutionize manufacturing | Jason Sparapani | September 29, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewBut that has never struck me as terribly apt or helpful, despite its obviously negative connotation.
In case the connotation is lost, “Theater Kid” is not a good thing here.
“Linda Perry-style,” of course, carries with it a history and a very specific connotation.
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation.
Will Ferrell Soccer Speech, Cliff Dive Slip ‘N Slides, and More Viral Videos | Alex Chancey | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt has this crazy negative connotation that I never understood.
To fix the connotation of a concrete name, or the denotation of the corresponding abstract, is to define the name.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillWhy, I should say it means 'skilful, clever,' and it carries with it the connotation of 'novel.'
Riders of the Silences | John FrederickThey had been diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impressions for which Nature did not intend them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyThis term one may accept as technically correct without necessarily accepting the sinister connotation imputed to it by labor.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanThe specific difference is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus to complete the connotation of the species.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic | William Stebbing
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