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That's scary to some in the Democratic "establishment" who are afraid to even utter the word "liberal" because of its negative connotations due to the associations with things such as hippies, street protests, drug-using radicals, welfare abuse, and large, expensive and inefficient government.

Although absinthe is now thought of as an alcoholic beverage, with unhappy connotations due to its ability to cause absinthism when drunk to excess, it was originally used in the 1780s to cure colic (aka IBS) and fight dysentery, which would correlate with its probable antibacterial activity.

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Since [R] is new and likely carries a negative connotation due to a Mandarin transfer [cf. Chen 陳雅玲 (2010, 2012); Chuang and Fon (2017)], one would have expected speakers who are more proficient in Min to be more conservative about and thus more immune to negative phonological transfers from Mandarin.

Although incidental findings in genetic studies have historically had a negative connotation due to misattributed parentage [ 6], recent studies show that incidental findings involving health-related information are not uniformly regarded as unwelcome by participants, particularly if the information can be used to prevent or treat a disease or disorder [ 7, 8].

The authors suggest that emotional connotations facilitate processing due to the grounding of words' meanings in emotional experience.

As a consequence, the objective meanings of language, defined in dictionaries as invariant regardless of users, also bear subjective connotations for language users due to their unique histories of linguistic experience, even though for practical purposes of communication they are able to set aside such differences.

Grime et al. found participants used it as 'shorthand for normal bodily change' and adopt a 'use it or lose it' philosophy to exercise; Grime et al. report the latter finding is in contrast to other reported research suggesting patients may avoid activity due to connotations of wear and tear [ 22].

Show Racism the Red Card feel that the term 'coloured' is now outdated and has the potential to cause offence due to the connotations associated with the term and its historical usage.

This could not possibly be due to differential connotations across vowel contexts, which were not observed in Ang 洪惟仁 (2003) [cf. Table 2].

renamed the music video of "Stinkfist" to "Track No. 1" due to offensive connotations, and the lyrics of the song were altered.

Qualitative research with physicians also reports patient aversion to using warfarin due to negative connotations [ 16].

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