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denote

[dih-noht] / dɪˈnoʊt /


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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

If you think those pies denote happiness, you would be right.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Denmark's largest grocery store operator, Salling Group, recently introduced a symbol, a black star, on pricing labels to denote European brands.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

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

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2024

To clarify this point, I will often use the term ‘Sapiens’ to denote members of the species Homo sapiens, while reserving the term ‘human’ to refer to all extant members of the genus Homo.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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