denote

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As part of her quest to revive N|uu, she and her granddaughter, Claudia Snyman, established a school for the language, which uses special characters in script to denote the verbal clicks.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

In a rear gallery, dark nighttime photographs are hung on walls painted black to denote the wee hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

As per WHO, air with AQI values at or below 100 is considered to be satisfactory for breathing, while readings in the 400-500 range denote that pollution levels are "severe" in an area.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024

"Pathogen X is a term used to denote an unidentified or unspecified pathogen," the authors write.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2024

Pangenetics seemed an obvious choice—extending de Vries’s use of the word pangene to denote the units of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee