Sentence examples for threatening meaning from inspiring English sources

"Dollies" is one of the most popular insults used against synths – a seemingly innocent word taking on a threatening meaning.

Some people in pain tend to focus on and exaggerate the pain's threatening meaning, and estimate their own ability to deal with pain as poor.

"Internet slang changes quickly, so a word may not have a violent or threatening meaning, but over time, it may develop one," Fabbro said.

One example of such an anxiety-related cognitive distortion is interpretation bias, which refers to the tendency to attach a threatening meaning to ambiguous stimuli.

As with attentional bias, differential interpretation biases emerge when the threatening meaning of an ambiguous event is not completely dominant, but is less apparent to everyone (Calvo & Castillo, 2001).

Adopting a different experimental method, Hadwin et al. [ 11] confronted 7- to 9-year-old children with homophones (i.e., words that sound the same but have different meanings) that either had a neutral or a threatening meaning (e.g., dye versus die).

Variants of a novel attention modification paradigm were developed, designed to induce a group difference either in participants' tendency to selectively engage with, or disengage from, threatening meanings.

Figure out for yourself if this person reads hidden or threatening meanings into general remarks or events.

In a world of increasing aggregation, it is disaggregation that often threatens meaning.

The US-based Livestock Conservancy lists the breed as "threatened", meaning that population numbers worldwide are sub-5,000 sub-5,000l US registrandons annualss than 1,000.

Libel laws ensured a regular stream of suits and threatened suits, meaning that books had to be withdrawn.