Sentence examples for connotation of a from inspiring English sources

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Hardie looks like wood, and their connotation of a wooden home is a cheap home".

The much-discussed "stock market" — with its connotation of a single entity — is a misnomer.

Given the complexities, deregulation, with its connotation of a laissez-faire management of an industry, seems a misnomer.

It is noteworthy that "romance," as applied to a love affair in real life, has in modern English the connotation of a happy ending.

The English word juggernaut, with its connotation of a force crushing whatever is in its path, is derived from this festival.

Waterboarding, one memo argued, was "simply a controlled acute episode lacking the connotation of a protracted period of time generally given to suffering".

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He argues specifically that, in the 1740s, the term had a strong connotation of an imported vice; it was often used in the 1740s to connote suspicion against foreigners.

Regarding protein, the expression "high protein" is a frequent connotation of an unhealthy diet.

Aggression means "forceful attack," from the Latin word for attack; in modern usage, the noun has the connotation of an unprovoked attack.

It would be easy to shrug it off as an unfortunate connotation of an innocent use of "place", but like the use of "spook" in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain", it wasn't coincidence at all.

It also avoids the positive connotations of a "yes" answer.

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