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The phrase has unfortunate connotations as the former Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, promised he was "turning up the volume" shortly before quitting.
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The mountain range has unfortunate theme park connotations, and the design seems overpacked with unformed ideas.
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Filmed during the First World War, the silent footage features a young Canadian soldier called Dick – a name that seemingly had no unfortunate connotations back then – who is on leave in London where nicely dressed young women approach him, one after another.
Second, the term rigged has an unfortunate connotation of illegitimacy, as in the terms rigged election or rigged roulette table, and this connotation must be dismissed as prejudicial.
(For an introduction to the logic of quantifiers and bound variables, the basics of which are presupposed in this article, see Shapiro (2013).) Talk of "commitment" has an unfortunate connotation: it applies more naturally to persons than to theories.
He conceded that the word ceasefire had "an unfortunate connotation in the Syrian context" because some had been achieved by government sieges or starvation so that residents faced no alternative.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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