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Yet their meanings can be altered simply by changing context or editing a caption.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
The thorny protection of hedges led to other historical meanings, though.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
In Still Alive, Samay Raina gestures to that fragile balance: how jokes, once released into the online world, can travel far beyond their original context, taking on new meanings, and sometimes carry serious consequences.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The word “morally” carries a weight with different subjective meanings.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
I turned in my Chapter Review Map on the culture of China to Mr. McElroy and added a list of Chinese characters and their meanings that I wrote myself to make up for being late.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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