"Could" connotes possibility and invites broader disclosure; "would" connotes more certainty and can be used by firms to exclude disclosure.
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Yachts — the mere word connotes luxury and easy living.
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Being a diva connotes a particular kind of womanly arrogance.
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A live fish in a bowl connotes fertility or abundance.
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But it connotes something more subtle: persuasion, suggestion, inspiration, security.
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"'Direct attack' connotes some sort of purposeful behavior," Manfred said.
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The term "misogynist" usually connotes a male bias against women.
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Champagne served in a flute connotes elegance and festive celebration.
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The Korean version connotes more of a "old beast lunatic" vibe.
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Those who use it might think that the word connotes "spirited".
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The physical nature of it, as an art object, connotes secrets.
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He added that it connotes that the government is not legitimate.
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Today, when we use the word ''progressive,'' it connotes a general leftishness.
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The black is framed by an elaeagnus-green that connotes Asiatic foliage.
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And Billy Lynn connotes, more than anything else, a high-end game.
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Haidilao's name originates from a Sichuanese mah-jongg term that connotes winning.
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Right, and also that the longer story connotes the more important story.
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I mean the part about Watergate and the abysmal amorality it connotes.
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To rig a fleet (or jury-rig another conveyance) connotes competence and pluck.
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There's something in the way he declaims: it connotes certainty, sympathy and resignation.
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It alienates us from "the government," a phrase that today connotes bureaucratic quagmire.
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The word "spin" connotes something a little different from older names for persuasive speech.
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Stubbornness, to my mind, connotes a, an unreasoning, a thoughtless refusal to do something.
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Failure connotes competition in strength, character, or ideas; Rubio has none of those things.
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But I am not always sure what the term "decolonization" actually connotes in its usage.
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As his name connotes, he's capable of chopping vinyl-sourced samples with razor-sharp precision.
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And I don't know anyone who didn't think pre-Trump that the phrase connotes vulgarities.
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"One hundred percent," of course, connotes certitude, round-the-clock commitment, totality, crystal clarity, perfection.
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It's a phrase that connotes wealth, luxury, excess, a life of unlimited possibility and security.
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" It goes on, "Avoid abortionist," saying the term "connotes a person who performs clandestine abortions.
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I've long since wondered if taking and posting a selfie connotes anything beyond surface likes.
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That tricky word "civilized" connotes enlightenment, behavioral restraint, evolutionary advancement and the suppression of bestial impulses.
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Teigen tweeted that she preferred the terms "clean eating" and "eating light," as dieting connotes deprivation.
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It's with hesitation that'd we call this version "lightened-up" — that connotes some sort of deprivation.
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We were taught to believe that it connotes self-centeredness, and that anything "selfish" is wrong.
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"It connotes excitement," Bush told late-night host Stephen Colbert in September of his "Jeb!" logo.
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"Crisis" connotes a sharply defined moment of conflict, in this case over the content of constitutional norms.
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On the one hand, revolution connotes a major upheaval, a disruption of the natural order of things.
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Anyone with a cause can claim the term in order to benefit from the gravity it connotes.
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In fact, even the title Call of Duty: Ghosts connotes precision, silence, deftness on a supernatural level.
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It is digestibilité, digestibility in English, a single word that, like terroir, connotes something far more complex.
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" She isn't surprised to hear that taller men receive higher pay, because "height connotes power and authority.
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Pity, on the other hand, connotes superiority and allows the pitier to maintain a distance from the pitied.
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To be greedy in our era connotes reasonable ambition and the desire to hoard more than you need.
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As the name of the very action connotes, when we save a game we are typically ourselves safe.
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For men a healthy head of hair connotes vigor and virility; for women it represents femininity and beauty.
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So when you ask about Hollywood, what connotes "Hollywood," which is that that era is over and finished.
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While some might joke about husbands gaining sympathy weight with their pregnant wives, that isn't really what "dadbod" connotes.
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"Business" connotes suits, ties, loafers, and pencil skirts; "casual" serves up images of t-shirts, khakis, cotton, and sneakers.
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There is a similar Hebrew word that means faith, and an Arabic one that connotes good fortune or luck.
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It connotes seriousness, it offers the promise that no TV setup is too complicated for it to rein in.
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" But it connotes something a bit more peremptory, closer to "because I said it, that's just how it is.
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And just as absence connotes meaning in the dialogue, so too does the general absence of the artist himself.
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"The term 'authoritarian' connotes a fringe perspective, and the perspective we're describing is far from fringe," Mr. Weiler said.
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"Humility" is a more expansive word that connotes a conscious resistance to an armored and overweening righteousness of purpose.
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The Japanese brand Askul carries batteries with no design other than a color and a number that connotes the size.
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Sometimes the writers seem to think misery connotes respectability and narrative power, no matter how they get to that misery.
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De Kooning's portrait of JFK was commissioned and so her finished painting connotes the respect she was expected to deliver.
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Poem Selected by Terrance Hayes This poem's simple title connotes a child's voice, but the poem itself is much stranger.
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The term "found images" often refers to work from the distant past; the term connotes excavation, the discovery of artifacts.
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The wobble also connotes a lack of self-seriousness: Formal rigor isn't part of D.R.A.M.'s arsenal, nor is complexity.
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In other words, a trending topic connotes discussion around a term, not a particular argument for or against that term.
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This tagalog word connotes an inner psychological world, which differs from our external experiences in the physical environment that surrounds us.
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Though it's beyond her means, she becomes determined to own the same dress, which she believes connotes authority, civility and respectability.
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Pink wine, and all that it connotes, may be satisfying enough to some, but good pink wine is worth seeking out.
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And most of it connotes a wealthy, fashion-forward lifestyle in Paris or New York — great fun for the privileged few.
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But for this year's round, the award is a welcome affirmation from an organization that connotes a vote of public confidence.
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Similar to No. 3, "I hate to bother you, but..." connotes the other person has all the power in the relationship.
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Similar to number three, "I hate to bother you, but..." connotes the other person has all the power in the relationship.
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"Civilization connotes a body of ideas and a value system," you add, making the point that Russia's nukes can't destroy it.
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Lit's broad definition is exactly why it makes the list: It streamlines communication and connotes the overall feeling of an amazing party.
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The idea of 'the Projects' connotes a whole world of ideas from the outside, but how many outsiders have actually been inside?
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"Don't ever fill up the mate with water to the very top!" he adds with a sense of urgency that connotes sacrilege.
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"We are the halal version of American dating websites," he said, using the word that connotes what is acceptable under Islamic tradition.
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A pandemic is a disease that has infected people globally, while an "epidemic" connotes a disease whose spread is out of control.
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I like it because it connotes the ground, the soil and grass underneath one's feet that can feel like one's personal preserve.
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Esports connotes a certain image: Young people seated in front of powerful PCs, playing complex, tactical games at an extremely fast pace.
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Maybe that's because age has only brought limited maturity in Payet: he still plays with the impish fearlessness that so powerfully connotes youth.
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For some Jews of Eastern European origin, the date connotes a time when local non-Jews would get drunk and carry out pogroms.
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While the lyric connotes cozy relations between the famously fertile shellfish of this bivalve capital, feelings among shellfishermen themselves are decidedly less friendly.
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So intense are these songs that it feels almost impolite to refer to them as art, which typically connotes an interest in aesthetics.
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It also connotes a legal status—in 2004, the Communist Vietnamese government formally declared the diaspora an integral part of the Vietnamese community.
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The title comes from the nickname given to the street on which the women work, but also connotes both migration and pubic grooming.
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The exhibition title here is the key: Painting Paintings connotes a series of actions informed by conceptual ideas, rather than a singular result.
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In more careful legal parlance, the phrase "strict construction" connotes an interpretive approach that reads federal powers narrowly and/or enumerated rights strictly.
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The word "hater" connotes a troll or adversary—someone who tries to take down another person simply for the sake of being a dick.
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Unfortunately, the title itself connotes a positive title and TIME is constantly finding themselves in the position of having to clarify what it means.
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Boudicca and the Amazons kept popping into my mind, and for women's wear that connotes strength and self-sufficiency, which is no bad thing.
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"Rushes on banks?" connotes some sort of financial panic, but today it refers to plant life on the banks of a body of water.
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But perhaps it's time to take seriously the emotional appeal of rosé, by which I mean what it connotes to those who crave it.
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" And that "the concept of 'faithful execution' connotes the use of power in the interest of the public, not the office holder's personal interests.
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Joel Kotkin, a professor at Chapman University, said the term currently connotes killing single-family homes in favor of dense living arrangements and public transportation.
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There is a safety and acceptance that identity connotes, as well as an instinctive and deeply held fear that Jews can never truly be safe.
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For Mr. Trump, it connotes a narrow focus on the economic interests of blue-collar industry, and contrasts with the soft cosmopolitanism of international elites.
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"Natural" connotes "goodness," he wrote recently in the Washington Post, dissecting the current lawsuit over the relative natural or unnatural merits of LaCroix sparkling water.
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If this pair had wished to move units, they'd have replaced "thoughtfully" with "mindfully," a pastel word that connotes thought without the bother of thinking.
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Hers is called "The Bread and Salt Between Us," an expression in Arabic that connotes mutual respect and the beginning of an alliance or friendship.
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"When you see small eyes, it connotes an adult, a grown person, and that person will be able to help you find food," he explained.
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One of their demands is for the government to stop labeling the demonstrators as rioters, which connotes that even peaceful protest is a criminal activity.
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Sonja Falck is wary of the word "gifted" because "it connotes privilege", in that the gifted person is seen as having an advantage over everyone else.
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Her tone is less greedy (a word that, to me, connotes some ambition) as it is complacent – the sentiments of someone...comfortable being extremely comfortable (#blessed).
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But her praise for Mr Trump sounded much like the thousands of Americans who flock to Mr Trump's rallies, and so connotes authenticity to those fans.
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We're not big fans of the term "anti-aging" — it connotes that aging is bad, and you need to be young in order to be beautiful.
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In the end, what's most troubling about HFR is not the way it looks — I mean, come on, it looks fantastic — but what that look connotes.
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The term Silicon Valley, at least to outsiders, connotes a certain positivity and optimism and a sense that technology is good for the world and humanity.
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Then there is the change from "held captive," which connotes a power imposed from the outside, to "nostalgic for," which suggests a desire generated from within.
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Lamoon has "many meanings," Mr. Thongtanyong explained: It's a Thai word that connotes delicacy, softness and tender care, with an echo of the chef's last name.
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When it comes to swimwear, this light-reflecting hue connotes glamour, elegance, and most importantly, simplicity — something that our decision-fatigued mind could benefit from right now.
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Now it's a brand that connotes buzzy, insidery looks at what's happening in the Trump White House and across Washington, delivered each morning via Allen's email newsletter.
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"Wellness" connotes taking care of all aspects of your health, including sleep, stress, nutrition, activity, and happiness—taking nothing to extremes, and definitely not focusing on weight.
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Before the revolution, he gave himself the nom de guerre of Boris Volin, a play on the Russian word volya , which connotes both will power and freedom.
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We don't yet know all that much about Omar Mateen, who pulled the trigger, again and again, in a nightclub whose name connotes life, not death: Pulse.
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The Pour POMEROL, France — The word Bordeaux connotes magnificent chateaus, aristocratic (or at least wealthy or corporate) landowners and wines that occasionally live up to their pretensions.
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Chris was in NY Sunday when a guy approached him and called him "Fredo" ... the insulting name of a character in "The Godfather" ... a name that connotes weakness.
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In the real world, "disruption" has translated into offloading risks on others, "convenience" connotes data collection, and "the transformative power of AI" sounds like the algorithms have won.
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Its appearance on any gourd-shaped object connotes longevity, since gourds are believed to carry elixirs of immortality but also reference fertility due to their abundance in seeds.
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Since Phase 1 trials establish safety but not efficacy, clinical researchers are concerned that less savvy patients seeking experimental drugs may falsely believe that access alone connotes efficacy.
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That this history is, if not lost, piecemeal and happenstance, connotes the great failing of historical descendants; we do not even remember enough to know what we've forgotten.
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" New president James Millership said that the name Ruby was chosen for its "sensual, feminine quality" that "connotes value and fits with the fresh start our company is undergoing.
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It might serve you well to hark back to a mythic past that not only connotes a sense of uplift but also one of teetering slippage that requires resurrection.
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She eschews labels like "feminist," which, she says, among some Hasidim connotes women who want to overstep religious boundaries separating women from men — boundaries that Ruchie continues to observe.
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It also connotes the messiness that Pico lets into his work, and the contemporary information glut (as in social media; as in a Twitter feed) that his style reflects.
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The limit effectively connotes that the state of New Jersey does not condone speakers like Polizzi, but, hey, if the school wants to pay for her, it can go ahead.
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We don't call people who retire after successful careers, "survivors," because the term connotes a more dangerous set of circumstances than those associated with most jobs, no matter how difficult.
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He has been highly critical of Donald Trump, and describes his social views as liberal, but he has been a proponent of American "leadership," a term that usually connotes interventionism.
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Some increased tuition on the theory that high tuition connotes prestige, but then cut their cash flow by giving out generous scholarships and grants to lure students despite their price.
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"[The Heart Attack Grill] is a medically themed restaurant with high caloric food products, including a restaurant name that connotes a catastrophic medical condition," the lawsuit says, according to Law 360.
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For shrillness connotes desperation, and desperation belongs to the lesser world—the world inhabited by ordinary people, who often argue not because they need to argue, but simply because they need.
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Both MTV and Comedy Central also changed their logos to orange, the color that connotes gun violence awareness, leading up to the March For Our Lives in Washington D.C. on March 2857.
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"I don't like to use the word 'cheat meal' because I think it connotes that there are good and bad foods," said Martha McKittrick, a registered dietitian and health and wellness coach.
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But there's always some kind of disjuncture, a disjuncture that arises from photography's tendency to show only so much but to often mean much more: A photograph connotes more than it denotes.
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A silver oval shaped like a crown at the top of the triptych connotes heaven, while the darker black impasto slabs at the bottom of the painting are meant to denote hell.
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In a move meant to reflect an expanding bipartisan team at the once-Democratic firm, Heather Podesta + Partners today changes its name to Invariant: The name connotes something constant you can rely on.
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Trump didn't specify which Republicans he had in mind or what constitutes their disloyalty, but the word "protect" connotes some clear jeopardy to Trump, rather than his political preference that certain legislation pass.
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He seems to think that "antagonist" means the opposite of "protagonist" and that "third rail" connotes a moderate position between two extremes, rather than something that will fry you if you touch it.
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There was something queer about being single: queer in the sense of "strange," yes, but also in the sense that connotes a threat to the conventions around which most people arrange their lives.
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But to Muslims, or for anyone familiar with the many strands of Islam, the phrase connotes a direct link between the mainstream of the Muslim faith and the violent acts of a few.
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After a quarter-century of near-constant public exposure and scrutiny, she inevitably connotes sameness — which is a chief reason that she and her supporters are stressing the milestone of a first woman president.
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It connotes both the improvements — like new stores, safer sidewalks and more successful schools — and the excruciating shifts like the dislocation of entire blocks of longtime residents, often minorities, to make room for redevelopment.
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The word "documentary" — the "nonfiction" side of cinema — still connotes, for most people, an issue-driven, fact-based movie, one explicitly designed to convince the audience of a thesis or prompt them to take action.
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Finally, "migrant" connotes an economic motive; what this boils down to is a determination that migrants don't need to leave home but do so by choice, and thus forgo legal protections unless they return there.
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Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, is the flagship for the SpaceX vision of creating a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars – and yes, the name connotes more than just "Falcon" to those inside SpaceX.
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Sometimes the smiley was used as simple nostalgia—specifically, for the way it connotes the late-20003s flourishing of acid house in the UK, when the smiley became the fledgling dance scene's semi-official mascot.
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Now he is hoping to capitalize on that strong showing by forming a new political party — which he calls Will, a word that in Bulgarian connotes strength of character — in parliamentary elections on March 26.
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In addition to critiquing the novel's many pendejadas — a word that has no English equivalent but connotes a person with both foolish and cruel characteristics — my essay also held Big Publishing to account for this fiasco.
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At last month's Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, BMW Designworks' Director of Strategic Partnering Garen Moreno challenged the "senior" label, saying the images it connotes of blue hair and high waistbands do not reflect today's 65+ reality.
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For the left, neoliberalism often connotes a form of liberal politics that has embraced market-based solutions to social problems: the exchanges of the Affordable Care Act, for instance, rather than a single-payer, universal program like Medicare.
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For Smith, the "modernity" of his book's title connotes (among other things) a handful of core convictions: the value of freedom and equality; the importance of being able to think for oneself; the real possibility of universal enlightenment.
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An ally, it seems, is no longer just a mutually interested party or a strategic partner; the label now often connotes an unspecified but steadfast loyalty, a commitment to the allyship itself, rather than to any shared cause.
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The title of "Curbside (corrugated rug)" connotes the last-ditch furnishings of homeless urban nomads, and in fact the carton used in this work is in pieces, worn and frayed as if from habitual use as a carpet.
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Even when not describing people directly, as in Trump's tweets about crime and vermin, the word connotes the idea the that a place is being degraded by people — dirty and undesirable people, in his eyes — who don't belong there.
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Once the novelty wears off, bleached hair will revert once again to the confines of its core audience—horny idiots magnetically drawn to anything that connotes "anger problems" or "issues with mom" due to their own unexamined emotional problems.
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It is a niche preparedness culture that is lately becoming mainstream; amid the groundswell, it has been called a ''movement,'' a ''mindset'' and even a ''philosophy,'' for it also connotes a heightened consciousness about what you carry and why.
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While in the public mind, "Social Security" usually connotes payments you receive in retirement based on your prior earnings, Social Security also encompasses a program compensating past workers who develop disabilities that prevent them from participating in the workforce.
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The term "biological clock" often connotes the ideal age by which a woman should have children, but it can also be used to describe something just as important: the way your body keeps time, otherwise known as the circadian rhythm.
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Beyond all the easy jokes, the crux of the exhaustive 21-minute segment interrogates the weight of the name "Trump": Trump himself values his brand at around $3 billion, and his supporters feel that his name connotes success and wealth.
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But of course not every thin voice or descending melodic figure connotes what a work of music is about; it's case by case, with the meaning suggested by tonal relationships within those figures, and all the context around the figures.
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"The most that I can say, just in general terms, is that the determination that something is top secret, for many people connotes that these are the most closely held secrets, that their revelation would be extremely damaging," he added.
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His scholarly project has been institutionalized: Kendi is now the founding director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University, in Washington, D.C. In modern American political discourse, racism connotes hatred, and just about everyone claims to oppose it.
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But it also connotes backwardness, and thus you hear nasty comments about the "dirty" Kurds or the "dirty" Arabs — that is, the Middle Eastern peoples whom the Turks imagine they left behind when Ataturk came along and pushed them westward.
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But, more critically, acquaintances in Washington's world of public policy and politics, where he wants to eventually work, told him that a foreign degree "connotes a willingness to try things outside one's comfort zone" and would work in his favor.
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Donald J. Trump's campaign set off a wave of concern about its tactics on Thursday after a senior campaign official was quoted describing a sophisticated "voter suppression" effort, a term that usually connotes aggressive attempts to keep people from polling places.
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And what better way to emphasize the seriousness of his faith than to translate it into the very serious form of opera, an easy signifier of dazzling spectacle that also connotes old-fashioned substance and significance: something lavish, but also earnest.
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"Versace calls Antonio d'Amico simply 'my companion,' and for once, the phrase connotes not some James-ian spinster being trundled around Europe by a niece or some euphemism bestowed by New York Times obituary writers but a genuine term of endearment," Lemon writes.
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Her work connotes insecurity, but not despair: You finish viewing the photos with the hope that the woman who took them will find joy in her body for as long as she lives in it — and that the rest of us will, too.
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Even if Americans say they like policies that are derivative of socialism, like Social Security, the term "connotes very clear imagery to people in a very dog whistle kind of way," said Jefrey Pollock, president of the Global Strategy group, which advises Democrats on messaging.
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Controversial commentators such as Lucian Wintrich and Jack Posobiec suggested West's tweets were the beginning of some larger shift toward conservatism in the US. Others argued that West had been "redpilled," a recurring right-wing trope that derives from The Matrix and connotes embracing hard truths.
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" Wilson also refuses to refer to Lululemon as an "athleisure" brand because he is personally not a fan of the term, as he believes it connotes "a non-athletic, smoking, Diet Coke-drinking woman in a New Jersey shopping mall wearing an unflattering pink velour jumpsuit.
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We're practiced in the old connections from glittery gold to paper dollars to all that money connotes, but connecting bitcoin (which I defy any reader to clearly picture) to good old coins, the minted ingots used by our grandpas and ancient Romans alike, is a taxing mental operation.
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Who will stand ready to claim that globalization still connotes freedom and prosperity for all and that democracy means respect for minority rights when Americans — in the eyes of the world the greatest beneficiaries of globalization and traditional advocates of human rights — voted unambiguously that the system is broken?
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The philosophy of individual liberty connotes both a desire for freedom from state regulation in economic matters (a stance close to libertarianism) and a demand for the state to insure a minimal degree of social and economic justice—the liberalism of the New Deal and of European welfare states.
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Much of the movie's appeal lies in the more off-kilter observations: The curator Timothy Standring discusses the particular version of "Susanna and the Elders" that hangs over Norman Bates's peephole and notes that, of all the renditions of that scene, the one Hitchcock used strongly connotes voyeurism.
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In Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema, writer Michael Wedel refers to these ideas too: "On one hand, 'techno is a perfect, if obvious, choice' because as dance music, 'it immediately connotes high charged physical movement,' with '[t]he film's techno tracks [being] closely knit to it activity'," he writes.
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That term generally connotes hacking or a technical compromise of some kind, though the Cambridge Analytica situation involves a since-deprecated lax API and a business model that revolves around collecting massive troves of personal data and doling it out in ways often far from transparent to the average user.
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It's a jungle out here, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in Uman, Ukraine, the burial place of the 22016th-century Hasidic mystic rabbi known as Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (in Hasidism, "rebbe" is an affectionate term for "rabbi" that also connotes a strong spiritual leadership).
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" While ICE may be concerned that "raid" connotes indiscriminate or sweeping, harsh actions, Webster's New World College Dictionary defines it as broadly as "any act or instance of entering to remove or capture something" or "any sudden invasion of a place, as by police, for discovering and dealing with violations of the law.
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"In your typical rom-com, [the girl is] super skinny which I think has to do a lot with wanting to keep the gender balance where the man is always stronger and bigger versus the woman who has to be slim and slender, therefore it connotes a kind of weaker sex," says Hobson.
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"To Muslims, or for anyone familiar with the many strands of Islam, the phrase connotes a direct link between the mainstream of the Muslim faith and the violent acts of a few," Emile Nakhleh, director of the CIA's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program under George W. Bush, wrote in a 2016 piece for Vox.
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They're the food-and-drink equivalent of Apple and its iPhone, or Google and its apps, brands in possession of a basic, underlying image which, on its own, vaguely connotes some sanitized form of liberty and empowerment, but which is empty and non-specific enough to be padded out by the consumer's own personality, preferences, and aspirations.
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Moreover, President Trump was not violating the principle of "command influence" — which connotes an effort by a civilian to insert him or herself into military processes such as promotions and demotions — when he sought to reverse the Navy's decision to demote Gallagher after a military jury convicted him of posing for pictures with the corpse of an ISIS fighter.
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But one look at its bloody claws reveals that the character is capable of bloody violence, which it usually directs at a boy named Pitty, its owner: Gloomy Bear's juxtaposition of bloodiness and cuteness is what Kakeda is getting at when she describes what's missing from American character culture, where cute creatures typically aren't capable of being anything but good and ugly always connotes evilness.
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There are the obvious tropes: a female artist from an Arab country (which connotes the idea that a female artist would be keener to update the historical categories of "Islamic" or "Arab"), and the label given to her by almost every commentator as, "the first abstract modernist artist in Lebanon and possibly the Arab world," ever since Lamia Rustum Shehadeh made that claim in 1999 in her book Women and War in Lebanon.
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