connote

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He claimed her firing was “for cause,” a term whose precise legal meaning hasn’t been adjudicated but is widely interpreted to connote gross malfeasance or some such offense in office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Our house didn’t connote individuality any more than a GHW does; if anything, it connoted that we fit in—that we lived in the same kind of house as lots of our neighbors.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2025

It didn't necessarily connote or imply a state of psychological unease.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

“I’m using a signifier, Blackness, which for some people can connote serious pain,” she acknowledged.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

If you or someone you love is named Cindy or Brenda and is over, say, forty, and feels that those names did not formerly connote a low-education family, you are right.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt