It's had its moments of having a negative connotation, and right now I think it has a proud connotation.
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I think that the connotation of the word is obvious, and I don't think it's a connotation that I associate myself with.
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There would never be any negative connotation for a man being a boss, so to add a negative connotation on a woman being bossy?
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It advertises that one can become white in using their product, where being white has a positive connotation, and being black has a negative connotation.
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Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous.
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Still, for Camille, this site possess a potent sexual connotation.
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Even the original connotation of "meat" was "food in general".
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Because plus size, unfortunately, still does have a negative connotation.
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A number of brands, like WILDFANG, capitalize on the connotation.
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LePage denied using names like "Smoothie" for their racial connotation.
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Here, it's just a label with a vaguely thuggish connotation.
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"Networking has such a negative connotation," Ms. Philipps said offstage.
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I want to avoid any kind of sexist connotation here.
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And I don't say those things with any negative connotation.
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It is a relatively new expression, with a derogatory connotation.
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BARR: I don't think the term has any pejorative connotation.
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The phrase developed its political connotation in the 20th century.
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Yet, there's still a negative connotation attached to this experience.
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"Queer" has generally regained a neutral or even positive connotation.
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And the obvious thing is the word itself carries connotation.
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Pepsi, like Uber, doesn't have the most positive brand connotation.
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" Sulfur yellow, he added, "has a sort of hellish connotation.
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The connotation is someone who is lazy, useless and demented.
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Art had either a religious connotation or an erotic one.
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There is a strong connotation of toys for the boys here.
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For me it doesn't have that negative connotation in my life.
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The word has a negative connotation but some bar bands rock.
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But for fertility doctors, that question has quite a different connotation.
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"Be Our Guest" is a welcoming song with an ironic connotation.
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There was this negative connotation about what being a gamer meant.
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This image seems to also represent the negative connotation regarding technology.
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"'Punk' has a certain connotation," especially in jails, the judge said.
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"The name NAFTA has a bad connotation because the , " he said.
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Words like "pregnant" take on a metallic connotation in his lexicon.
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" He liked the name's royal connotation, and its "nod to Scotland.
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For many music fans, the term "progressive music" carries an ugly connotation.
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The Chinese word for privacy, yinsi, has a negative connotation of secrecy.
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"Binge-drinking" is not a connotation any sensible company would actively court.
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And it doesn't mean what you're saying it means in this connotation.
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I say "status" and people have a negative connotation to status-seeking.
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Per Chavez, the overall sentiment comes from another connotation of the word.
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"When you say 'lair,' there is a connotation to that," he continued.
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"There's something about its connotation with cellulite," he said in an interview.
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Tattoos, with their connotation of gangster culture, are frowned upon in Japan.
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"'Impulsive' has kind of a negative connotation to it," Mr. Salazar said.
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Then I wondered why I think "lonely" has a connotation of embarrassment.
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Q: The practice of cross-selling can sometimes have a negative connotation.
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When Twitter changed it to likes (hearts), it messed with the connotation.
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And I don't think the word 'spying' has any pejorative connotation at all.
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For instance, the Chinese word for bullying, qifu, has a very physical connotation.
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Cherries have always been a ripe, red, round fruit with a devilish connotation.
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It had an anti-authoritarian connotation of being lazy and taking less effort.
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" This positive connotation lived on into 19th-century congratulatory slang — "Bully for you!
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We're going to get rid of NAFTA because it has a bad connotation.
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Yes, for my colleagues in Washington, that simple phrase has a different connotation.
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And then taking yellow away from whatever racist connotation that that has had.
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What about the connotation, or the ideas and emotions associated with each symbol?
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But Eileen Myles's latest book of poetry, titled Evolution, has a different connotation.
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The rounded edges of text bubbles also gave messages a soft, friendly connotation.
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The phrase didn't carry any connotation of disrepute, as it would in America.
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Obviously having the commercial success and what that can do in terms of making your life more comfortable—that's nice, but it's really about putting something out there that means something and has a spiritual connotation and a nurturing connotation.
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When we hear the term owner, it's a much different connotation than other people.
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"I don't think the word 'spying' has any pejorative connotation at all," he said.
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It's not so much about the connotation; I really don't care what people think.
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There's not a negative connotation, this stuff just happens in bands all the time.
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If this show can create a new connotation for that term, then that's great.
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"This word can sometimes have a negative connotation, which it truly shouldn't," Rock says.
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Has a bad connotation because the United States was hurt very badly by NAFTA.
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"A lot of people find the JAP [Jewish American Princess] connotation offensive," Grant said.
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"I don't think it has a pejorative connotation at all," he told Mr. Whitehouse.
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Any spiritual or religious connotation here is left in the lap of the viewer.
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Save for Louis Vuitton steamer trunks, luggage has never had a particularly sexy connotation.
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More than a quarter of the tweets used the emoji in a sexual connotation.
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It didn't have the triumphalist and militarized connotation that's been attached to it now.
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The connotation of prudence as caution, or aversion to risk, is a modern invention.
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"Raids have a connotation of not being planned, of being random in nature," Torres said.
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The term's political connotation goes as far back as the 1880s, according to the publisher.
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Because of that holiday connotation, there's always been very positive feelings associated with this product.
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That has such a negative connotation derived from denouncing those who struggle with mental illness.
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I call it being a nationalist and I don't see any other connotation than that.
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Unlike most other chronic medical illnesses, substance use disorders have always carried a negative connotation.
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If "disabled" remains the standard term, some artists and activists resist its connotation of impairment.
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Despite the proletarian connotation of its name, many denounced the building as a bourgeoise emblem.
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It does not, however, ban all speech that someone might decide has a political connotation.
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The word was "transsexual" and thanks to the media, it had a very negative connotation.
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Text in all-caps also carries a connotation of the author shouting at the reader.
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But when you're shielded from something and it's actively censored, it takes a negative connotation.
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Mr. Presten prefers to be called a publicist, but the connotation no longer suits him.
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"The bigger this bubble goes, the bigger negative connotation it's going to have," he said.
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"I know that SEALs [have] this connotation of being very aggressive and hardcore," Kim said.
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"So Below" rhymed, so she picked it, though she admits she likes the "slightly ominous" connotation.
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"I think there is a negative connotation with the word fat," Meredith says in the video.
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But for photographer Frances F. Denny, the word "witch" carries a more relatable and cordial connotation.
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" ATJ: "We never talk about a man, or a woman with any sort of sexual connotation.
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About a quarter of the ads dealt with crime or policing, often with a racial connotation.
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But the whole 'bro-ification' thing has negative connotation to it, like some knuckleheads or something.
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The court said Weidel's claim that the word "bitch" always has a sexual connotation was doubtful.
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"The first thing you see is that negative connotation toward all of our accomplishments," she said.
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Now, sour, with its pejorative connotation, is perhaps not a wholly adequate description for these beers.
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The connotation depends on the person saying it, the situation, and the way it is said.
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Basically, it's difficult to conjure a positive connotation when it comes to these tutu-like pieces.
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He refused to say or hear the word "love," which had a negative connotation for him.
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So the Year of the Rooster has a special connotation with auspiciousness, positivity and good fortune.
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"I don't think [the navel piercing] has the negative, burned-out, trendy connotation anymore," he says.
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For my father, going "out to sea" carried a mystical connotation, charged with rebellion and renunciation.
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So a meme's connotation or meaning is whatever the people who use it believe it means.
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" "I don't understand the negative connotation of the word, or why it should exclude the opposite sex.
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The connotation the president is carrying forward is a political mob seeking an outcome regardless of facts.
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"It is unfortunate that a black first has a different connotation to a white fist," Fulton said.
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The only word was "transsexual" which had a very negative connotation — and by the way, still does.
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Historically, Indiegogo was the primary location for tech projects, with Kickstarter receiving the connotation of artists' paradise.
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A clear duality exists: Hair has a social connotation, yet it is a form of self-expression.
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His shorthand utilises commercial and cultural signifiers, and then twists them, dispossessing them of their intended connotation.
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I don't understand the negative connotation of the word or why it should exclude the opposite sex.
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The connotation the president is carrying forward is a political mob seeking an outcome regardless of facts.
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To mitigate the issue, we have renamed the effect to exclude any positive connotation associated with it.
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There are, of course, some parts of society where the word "privilege" has a very negative connotation.
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I don't understand the negative connotation of the word, or why it should exclude the opposite sex.
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And I don't want to be like, 'You can't come around this,' and create some negative connotation.
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In the beginning of this article, amenities provided by colleges seemed to be given a negative connotation.
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Because the word PEONS has a negative connotation, though, I'm going to try to lighten it up.
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Don't romanticize the swan dive's connotation; no matter the height you dive from, you'll never feel birdlike.
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Even though anger tends to have this negative connotation, there can be a positive part of it.
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And considering the tropical connotation, we're guessing it will continue to gain traction well into summer's beach season.
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Specifically, Between Dig and Display, her first show in Paris, scrutinizes the connotation of display within aniconic societies.
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The Nintendo character has a totally different connotation for me now than he did a few years ago.
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It's better than vague "cloud" language, but it has the unfortunate connotation of robber barons and global conflict.
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He's trying a joke about how, normally, when we think of inflation, it carries a negative economic connotation.
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After all, who said that the term "witch" (or even "witch hunt") had to have a negative connotation?
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These animals are associated with bygone royalty, a connotation enhanced by the animal's aura of dignity and strength.
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Using its current connotation, significantly more people qualify to be president than are actually up to the task.
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Trump may revive in us a lost connotation of love: love as an act that crosses tribal lines.
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"My connotation was 1980s ladies with long red fingernails sipping blush wine and watching soap operas," she says.
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Additionally I think the sounds that came from synthesisers had a deep-rooted futuristic connotation in that generation.
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But using "respect" as a command in this fashion seems to prescribe a negative connotation to the idea.
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Opponents of the practice tend to call it physician-assisted suicide, which carries a negative connotation for many.
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Although the phrase carries a not-so-great connotation, it's impossible to ignore the fact that life happens.
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While it's often referenced accurately, the connotation that we commonly associate with it diverges away from the truth.
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Yet its vaguely ethereal connotation is surprisingly adaptable to the unusual thesis with which Dumas paints her subject.
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For the longest time, there was a derogatory connotation around it that had more to do with appearances.
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It's often said that the tune was originally a "drinking song," but that connotation is not quite right.
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The effect being that the feeling and connotation of the word changes as the viewer reads it over.
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He eventually had the number 69, with its sexual connotation, tattooed on his body more than 200 times.
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Being impulsive often has a negative connotation, but I think that it is very often a positive thing.
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But the epithet has earned the connotation among nations whose flimsy governing institutions are corrupt, arbitrary and incompetent.
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The 24 hours were broken up into four sections, each with an occult connotation: Invocation, Dedication, Purge, and Prayer.
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I asked a Trump campaign operative today if they're testing that, because in '68 it meant a racial connotation.
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I was determined to prove that notorious connotation of "teenage pregnancy" wrong, at least as it pertained to me.
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The other is the connotation that some foods are for rich people and other foods are for poor people.
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This takes on a ponderous connotation when the only human in the equation is the one holding the controller.
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The rainbow flag does have a universal "LGBTQ" connotation, but it is also associated specifically with the gay identity.
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"In some circles, a 'hook-up' has a sexual connotation, which could land you in a sexual harassment seminar."
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It has a connotation implying that the lack of diversity in New York City schools is imposed by law.
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However, the slang word extra has taken on a more specific, negative connotation, as used to describe a person.
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According to Endress, rubber stamps have a connotation of legitimacy in Haiti, especially in matters of bureaucracy and representation.
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Chinese steel may have a bad connotation in today's political circles, but for early Americans, buying Chinese was preferred.
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Most of us do not see a need to overcome stuttering, or allow stuttering to hold a negative connotation.
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The subtext of the outrage was this: A pre-existing political connotation automatically subsumes a frivolous but harmless one.
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Reviews like this are part of the process at Merriam-Webster as words change meaning and connotation over time.
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"The name NAFTA has a bad connotation because the United States was hurt very badly by NAFTA," he said.
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"The name NAFTA has a bad connotation because the United States was hurt very badly by NAFTA, " he said.
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While it&aposs often referenced accurately, the connotation that we commonly associate with it diverges away from the truth.
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Within this context, "queer," as Mr. Stafford invokes it, came to take on a more provocative, button-pushing connotation.
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It was a slim fit for those times, and a zip fly carried a much heavier connotation with rebelliousness then.
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After the dismemberment of Ukraine, the question took on a new connotation: who will be next to suffer Western sanctions?
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We ask why people slide into DMs, and then we process how the direct message's connotation has changed over time.
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"I decided at a very early age that anything I did was going to have a political connotation," he explained.
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In elementary school, I learned about marijuana and different drugs, and all of it was given a really negative connotation.
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" The musician said that after finding out the connotation of "black Australian" he "sat in my room and I cried.
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I never thought about that connotation, that raising that you see in the word "súbita," but all readings are fair.
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They're skeptical about the establishment, and the socialist label doesn't have the negative connotation it does for many older Americans.
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You can't open Instagram without seeing everyone link out to the same salt bae image with some new, textual connotation.
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But it's precisely this connotation that artist Romily Alice seeks to reclaim through her practice as a neon light artist.
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That's no fault of Time, of course, but the perception around awards in general almost always having a positive connotation.
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But given its clear negative connotation, Mr. Reed said, most people would not dare to use the phrase in 2018.
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Arènes realized they had to change the word "concrete," which had a more material connotation for geologists than for philosophers.
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To avoid the fashion connotation of jewelry, they called their pieces objets portés, or objects that are worn or carried.
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Defenders of Ms. Bash insisted that she had not intended any racist connotation and was merely signaling O.K. to someone.
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There's a negative connotation that potentially the run is fake, the coin is being pumped and the price will crash.
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But by the end of this sustained, frightening immersion in Peter's private world, the title has acquired a darker connotation.
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So while there's no shame to hanging out with your friend and their significant other, the word has a negative connotation.
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But, "the connotation the president is carrying forward is a political mob seeking an outcome regardless of facts," Cruz reportedly said.
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Demonizing 'liberal' Since the mid-1960s, conservative politicians, activists and media outlets have shaded "liberal" with an ominous and sinister connotation.
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They redefined religious concepts like the incarnation of God and the kingdom of heaven to give them a more earthly connotation.
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Even though they're gloriously steeped with cultural significance, locs still have a negative connotation that's hard to break in some circles.
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Based on this evidence we find that Opposer's mark MARGARITAVILLE and Applicant's mark MARIJUANAVILLE are similar in connotation and commercial impression.
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However, perhaps it's better to shed light towards a group of people in a positive connotation rather than a negative one.
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The JUUL, a slim, USB-looking e-cigarette, has a specific connotation these days, thanks in large part to the internet.
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There is no way to avoid looking tacky, no matter how much of a Pride connotation one is hoping to convey.
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In diplomatic terms, the phrase "protect" would have the connotation that breastfeeding is the policy to the exclusion of everything else.
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Nationalism had a different connotation in those days... A: Sure, but then the lack of context is your problem, not mine.
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On one hand, many Greek organizations are prestigious and nationally ranked; on the other, they carry the negative connotation of partying.
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Each succeeding term that entered the lexicon developed a pejorative connotation; consider the idiot-and-moron banter of the Three Stooges.
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The CFPB statement is blatantly false and harmful to consumers reading the report with its incorrect connotation about how debt works.
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" By the numbers: "At least 25% of the ads centered on issues involving crime and policing, often with a racial connotation.
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And then, of course, there's the connotation of "chill" that implies a kind of isolation, or a little bit of distance.
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And the connotation of Samsung's kind-of-sweet-looking "eye roll" used to have an extremely different vibe than the others.
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While remanufacturing does not have a glamorous connotation, companies involved are on the cutting edge of both manufacturing and data privacy.
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They hang like abject bodies, squashed and subdued, though their detumescent forms also have a sexual connotation that's hard to miss.
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Being investigated by the FBI carries an inherently negative connotation, but not everyone receiving investigative scrutiny is guilty of a crime.
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"The connotation of that term is that he was proactively passing it, that he was willingly transmitting it," Mr. Kyle said.
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And while we're at it, this is 2017, so why are we still using the term "girly" with a negative connotation?
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The filter was renamed "spark" in order to "exclude any positive connotation associated with it," FaceApp CEO Yaroslav Goncharov told The Guardian.
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It docks the use of the phrase "tweetstorm" because it has a negative connotation and recommends "a series of tweets," for example.
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Meanwhile, besides the obvious connotation with healthy eating, Gordon says vegetables also go hand in hand with the consumer's obsession with protein.
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And that's going to deal with hip-hop merging more with like electronic dance music and it not having a negative connotation.
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If somebody called me a Valley Girl and I thought about that connotation, that's not something that I would want to be.
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When Spanish colonialists came to Mexico, they ignored the existing 'popular arts,' (a term that Rivera notes "barely hides its pejorative connotation").
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Or perhaps you didn't like how "love" was defined in your past relationships, so it has a negative connotation in your mind.
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Rapper Le1f has also been tied as a new wave of ball-inspired performer, though he has worked to shake the connotation.
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Why a CD isn't an investmentSome people describe a CD as an investment, but that gives it a connotation of having risk.
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Tam, in which an Asian-American rock band won the right to copyright the name "The Slants" despite the name's offensive connotation.
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It is unhelpful that the disease and label of addiction carries a pejorative connotation that has social, political, cultural, and legal implications.
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That gives a negative connotation to a plant that benefits people so much, that they put so much tender care into growing.
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Daly, who had just moved to the United States, said the term had a different meaning and connotation in his native Ireland.
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PR: It's a negative connotation that is linked to a Mid-Atlantic preparatory school kids who are privileged and vote for Trump.
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As the aughts approached, the term started to lose its racial connotation, becoming instead a catchall for any sort of progressive behavior.
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And by Friday, the label "negative connotation" had appeared under the videos depicting Jews using signs for pipe curls and hooked noses.
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"There's something about the word 'tho' as it translates into our culture that has a sort of teenage text connotation," Peele said.
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While the phrase Hatch used has taken on a sexual connotation, it also has meanings that are far from blue comedian material.
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It is a ubiquitous expression in football, a term borrowed from golf that has been refashioned and taken on a misguided connotation.
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The name then took on a positive connotation as the day became one of the most profitable retail days of the year.
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Kevin Holt: The shift toward digital instruments in general, you know, is always gonna have a bit of a hip-hop connotation.
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Dear Readers: Did you know that the prune used to be called the "dried plum" because the word "prune" had a bad connotation?
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However, in another free response test, participants largely criticized the word's sound—rather than its connotation—as the culprit for its negative reputation.
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Thus far, banks have opted not to create their own competing services because, despite rising interest, CDFIs still carry a small-potatoes connotation.
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Counter that connotation by styling it as a tunic top with wide-legged pants that are either cropped or have cool slit detailing.
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Taylor: I don't know if I'd say prolific because that has this positive connotation to it, but it's been more productive than that.
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While it doesn't sound as crass as cussing, "oh honey" has the same connotation as "no offense" — what follows is almost always offensive.
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While the term is often reappropriated by folks in the trans community, it retains its harmful connotation in the hands of cis people.
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Yet the very word "lonely" carries a negative connotation, Professor Cacioppo said, signaling social weakness, or an inability to stand on one's own.
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Before Japanese and Chinese users put this positive spin on holding things under your breasts, the test carried more of a negative connotation.
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What's interesting about the word flex is that, unlike the words "brag" and "show off," it does not have a strictly negative connotation.
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In a city famous for a transformative hip-hop scene and life-sapping commutes, the Hawks fit more comfortably with the second connotation.
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The term "guardian" also has a defensive connotation that may appeal to those who feel the Space Force may increase hostilities in space.
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PR: Or they're like family wealth and such, those are in some cases uncontrollable, but lax bros has a negative connotation with it.
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Rebranding "jihad" in Turkey, he argued, was perilous given its connotation in a surrounding region where it was being used for violent ends.
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The connotation of that oft-denigrated term — that is, an artist willing to be demanding for a higher purpose — actually appealed to her.
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But as Professor Sundararajan noted, illegal music and video sharing were once described as peer-to-peer, giving that term a bad connotation.
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Most prefer to describe themselves as "truthers" or the "awake" because of the negative connotation around tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theorists in popular culture.
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In a statement Sunday night, the senator said that "any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous," according to NBC News.
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There's still a debate as to whether or not slime has a sexual connotation—some people I showed videos to expressed arousal, not relaxation.
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It's the kind of studio film that takes on a far more interesting connotation when the culture in which it was produced is considered.
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Democrats may mean something more abstract when they speak of "losers" in a globalized economy, but the language carries the connotation of personal blame.
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Connotation: Moist has connections both negative and positive, but many people correlate moist with our basest bodily fluids, including vomit, phlegm and discharge. 3.
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In San Francisco, though, the concept of a piece in the city's tight housing market being a "fixer-upper" has a wholly different connotation.
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Her intent was to show that the definition of "model minority," which carries a connotation of wealth and privilege, does not actually hold true.
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Over the coming year, look for the description to assume a more pejorative connotation, as "superstar" and "inequality" meld into one negative new zeitgeist.
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I register the Christian connotation of the term "pregnancy counseling clinic" only when I reach a sign adorned by an angelic, soft-focus fetus.
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It's based on "mindfulness" and I hope it carries the connotation that people should pause and think about time in ways we don't normally.
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Hunchback: You know, we have this modern connotation to the word "dark" wherein it implies that someone might be capable, or prone to, violence.
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Trump's statements break down as follows: Nearly half of the Donald's statements are negative in connotation — and the majority of them are outright insults.
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Regardless of consent, the cover of Playboy had the same connotation: Theron was a hot girl, a Playboy girl, not an actress of substance.
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By dropping the masculine "o," Latinx (pronounced lah-teen-ex) does not default to a masculine connotation or exclude anyone it's meant to include.
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Taking control of one's browser to mine cryptocurrency has a somewhat of a negative connotation, but UNICEF Australia is seemingly doing it for good.
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And there's nothing available to the amateur Internet sleuth that would suggest there is any sort of racial connotation tied to the phrase either.
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The right hasn't yet figured out that the term "alt-right" has developed a negative connotation that is unfairly tarnishing people on the right.
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All of this freedom comes at a price: cryptocurrencies carry a connotation of danger — not a word most people want associated with their money.
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The resulting intimate side-by-side portraits form Vogel's With and Without series, which explores nudity as our natural state, without its sexual connotation.
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So back then, the concept of burnout had a "positive connotation in a way, at least in the German context," as Voigt put it.
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The word "abuses" has a certain connotation, suggesting willful intent to circumvent rules -- however, the report explicitly states that no such intent was found.
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They have been met with opposition from those who argue that Confederate symbols serve as sources of Southern heritage, devoid of any racial connotation.
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TMZ Sports reported that multiple NBA teams have gone away from calling their majority stakeholders "owners" because some believe the term has a negative connotation.
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The cultural right has done an excellent job of owning the language of migration, and as a result it has taken on a toxic connotation.
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Chosen as "word of the year" by two publishers last year, "sontaku" has acquired a more negative connotation because of its link to the scandal.
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"Violent Islam" actually sounds like a subset of Islam rather than the thing itself, and "violent" has no alternate connotation of "authentic," as "radical" does.
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The word actually comes from the Greek root word narcotikos, "to make stiff or numb"—[a connotation that] isn't as bloody as the one today.
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That word, immigrant, has such a negative connotation — I can just imagine all the little girls who have dreams of coming here and feel unwanted.
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Yeah, the nude black male body has a particularly loaded connotation in the public imagination and is a violent symbol in the history of America.
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Once the party is over, that is it, all is left on the dancefloor...[Another] negative connotation attached is that it's too raunchy and vulgar.
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Believing Lee to be ignorant in the way that words can trigger people, Will communicates that the word "aggressive" has a negative, racially charged connotation.
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If civil war has any constructive connotation, it is that describing a conflict as a civil war paradoxically emphasizes the essential unity of the combatants.
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"Socialism" in America, much like "liberalism", "conservatism", "republicanism", and, at least until recently, "nationalism", has a very different connotation from what is meant in Europe.
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The accordionist Art Bailey sharpens the nautical connotation in the music, while Mr. Lederer's wife, the jazz singer Mary LaRose, pitches in on several tracks.
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As a result, executive privilege often has a negative connotation even though it has long been recognized as a legitimate presidential power under certain circumstances.
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Will it still have the same meaning and connotation as it did back in the 90s for the people who were doing it before them?
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The name comes from the wild type term in biology, which means that something exists naturally, but also has the connotation of animals roaming outside.
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But if you come across one that's devouring its own tail known as the ouroboros, the connotation of this coiled creature is much more specific.
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"Dated and dehumanizing terms such as 'illegal alien' and 'alien' have taken on a highly negative connotation and perpetuate the denigration of immigrant communities," Reps.
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" In a hearing earlier this month, Barr defended his use of the word, saying he doesn't think "the word spying has any pejorative connotation at all.
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I'd hear them say that my sister's a lot darker than me, and it gave this connotation that it was more frowned upon to be darker.
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For example, when I write about hackers, I try to keep in mind that the word has a controversial history and can have a certain connotation.
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So since "thug" has been used so often to describe black men in particular, even when they're doing nothing wrong, it now carries a racist connotation.
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Explaining denotation and connotation is linguistics 101, I suppose, but maybe a 101 course is necessary when you're engaging a brand-new medium like consumer tech.
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"There's a negative connotation that's attached to the demographic of crowd that he brings out," DC-based journalist Marcus Dowling tells me during a phone conversation.
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Read over any important email twice before sending — not for the sake of grammatical and proofing (though that's important, too), but for the sake of connotation.
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The negative connotation behind the word "rabid" didn't stop the Oxford Dictionary from using the term "rabid feminists" in an example sentence on the word's entry.
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But she eventually apologized after initially defending the statement as an "expression of regard" and calling it "ridiculous" to interpret her comments with a negative connotation.
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The phrase "still life" ("dead nature" in French) carries a connotation of mortality, and the objects she chooses exist in various states of preservation or decomposition.
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In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous.
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Usually a name that has one meaning in its home language had an unfortunate connotation in another, often involving masturbation (Buick LaCrosse) or dung (Toyota MR2).
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Webb wrote about the origins of the phrase "cotton picker," and defended it as a long-used phrase in the South that had no racist connotation.
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Despite the negative connotation, the "permanent," sits steadfastly on plenty of salon menus, causing patrons to wonder quietly to themselves, Do people really still get perms?
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Battling the plant's powerful drug connotation might be the toughest hurdle for farmers and builders, and is possibly a more formidable obstacle during the Trump administration.
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Same goes for the many, many puns around the use of "Jew," which, when used without the more palatable "ish," has an aggressive and negative connotation.
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"Blackface paint has a historical and present-day connotation of racism that demeans those of African ancestry," the memo reads, with a link to a History.
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Identity politics doesn't just refer to its derogatory connotation of social justice warrior snowflakes advocating for cancel culture and political correctness (though that's part of it).
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When you replace with abortion foes, it gives a negative connotation, which may be the NYT opinion, but this is not an analysis or opinion story.
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Offering palliative aid to the ailing human condition is an ambitious undertaking—and one with an obvious religious connotation, given the titular "soul" of the series.
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Another read on the matter is that it's an effort to remove "Hydraulic Fracturing" or "fracking" from the lexicon — a term that has an increasingly negative connotation.
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Furthermore, it's often written as, "He who takes medicine and neglects diet…" without that sneaky little "to" thrown in before "diet" — giving it a very different connotation.
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Recreational pole dancing had already spread to urban areas across the country, but, as Hall told me, its sexualized connotation was harder to shake in the South.
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It recalls warm childhood rituals of baking with family, but has a darker connotation as the cottage of the carnivorous witch in the Hansel and Gretel fairytale.
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"I think chalking sits in beautifully with the Safe Schools anti-bullying program, maybe I'm showing my age, but that connotation between schools and chalk," he said.
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The country's largest hemp production firm has been advocating for the benefits of the plant and trying to change the negative connotation most Chinese hold toward it.
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M. Lamar: The image part of what I do with my work is really hard because images fundamentally have a pornographic connotation — objectifying more so than sound.
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In this case, "shallow" has a positive connotation: it's a smartwatch that requires fewer swipes and taps and less wait time just to get an app going.
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I feel in Spanish it has a very negative connotation and in Mexico no one wants to be called that because we are so colorist and whatnot.
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"There's always this negative connotation when it comes to what it means to be a dancer," says Rachael McLaren, a dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Although being in the dog house typically has a negative connotation, this house may be the only place you want to be on National Hot Dog Day.
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The former is the more dated definition, which sees artifice in direct reference to artistry and ingenuity, the latter, more modern connotation refers to trickery and cunning.
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However, with these methods, a sentence like, "I hope you're happy," could easily be misinterpreted as having a positive connotation simply because it possesses the word happy.
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It occurred to me that shorts have a bad connotation for a lot of people; the only way movie audiences see them are in feature-length blocks.
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That did not take, but eventually retailers — in Philadelphia and beyond — managed to spin a new connotation: The day the books went from red ink to black.
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Civil society groups designated as foreign agents, a term that carries a negative Soviet-era connotation, can be subjected to spot checks and face intense bureaucratic scrutiny.
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For yet others, the whole idea of assimilation is wrongheaded, and integration — a dynamic process that retains the connotation of individuality — is seen as the better model.
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Mr. Holtz-Eakin said that he survived as the budget office's director by avoiding using the word "cut" as much as possible because of its political connotation.
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The word alone carried such a lofty connotation to guarantee the trip would be memorable, luxurious, and nicer than anywhere my husband and I had ever stayed.
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"Candidates recognize that super PACs come with a real negative connotation," said Larry Noble, a former top lawyer with the Federal Election Commission and a CNN contributor.
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In general, coworking spaces have the connotation of being used by freelancers and smaller start-ups in need of office space, but many large companies are clients.
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" Reefer, though, acquired a particularly sinister connotation with the 1936 release of "Reefer Madness," a propaganda film meant to warn teenagers of the plant's ill effects. "Marijuana!
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" Reefer, though, acquired a particularly sinister connotation with the 1936 release of "Reefer Madness," a propaganda film meant to warn teenagers of the plant's ill effects. "Marijuana!
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The term has since been co-opted, first with a negative connotation: A "stan" was a fan whose devotion bordered on becoming a danger to their chosen icon.
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The word gentle often carries a negative connotation (especially in the workplace), but in reality, it's the gentleness of being graceful that gives ultra successful leaders their power.
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But the artist who created the bull fought to have the girl statue removed, complaining that it was an advertising gimmick that gave his creation a negative connotation.
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And I think right now there's so much connotation that data is kind of a negative thing, and people are misusing it, selling it, hacking it, breaking it.
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To start, the season's new batch of trends we've been eager to debut — like khakis (now without the school-uniform connotation), berets, and cool-but-cozy crushed velvet.
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So it made tactical sense that Hillary Clinton would attempt to peg this connotation of failure to Trump's proposed tax plan, which skews heavily toward benefiting the wealthy.
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In the actual history there wasn't a way to put a female character in, but then I started to understand that the jungle has this connotation for them.
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It's such a well-known joke that a man with the last name "Crook" is running for Congress in part by comically subverting the connotation of his surname.
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"Mark is one of those dudes whose passion [at one point] was unfortunately taken as fanaticism... He had a negative connotation," Lyricks explained to me at the screening.
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Rosé has become huge business in Provence, which is an actual place, not just a connotation of relaxed, seaside, summery languor with which rosé is so often identified.
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The word can have a sexual connotation, so people may have expected to see some explicit sex sequences, but it was never gonna be the case at all!
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Ominous images of onion-shaped domes taking over the White House baffled us; St. Basil's Cathedral is not part of the Kremlin complex and has no political connotation.
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Today, I wear blonde hair, blue hair, and all sorts of colors, but it still has this connotation of trauma — what White women have that Black women don't.
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The slang, short for original gangster, can take on a nefarious connotation, but in this case simply means being the first of its type, one that commands respect.
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Horn's oeuvre is rich in art-historical connotation while being bound together by a consistent, thematic logic that often includes references to mythical, historical, literary, and spiritual imagery.
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He shoots, sometimes he scores, most times he doesn't, but always he's OJ Mayo, and that name still rings with the connotation of someone that should be better.
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When Lisa Edelstein first started thinking about why stepparents have a negative connotation associated with them, she did what any post-millennium individual would do: turned to the internet.
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Despite the negative connotation that water weight carries, it's important to understand that, "in and of itself, the variations of water weight are not of concern," Dr. Forman says.
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Over time the image itself will take on the same connotation as the egg, but Twitter will likely succeed in dismantling the shared cultural meaning of an important term.
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You're choosing a word because you know that it has a negative connotation, and no matter your intent, it's hateful and creates a barrier between yourself and that group.
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Often the expression "touchy feely" evokes a negative connotation of being overly affectionate and too open with your emotions — but not at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB).
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"In referencing the one who invited me, I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous," Hyde-Smith said.
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But in Bryan's defense, he was just bullshitting about the Marilyn Monroe thing, and "destroy" has a different connotation overseas than it does on this side of the pond.
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If the bat is an animal associated with spooky stories in the West, the bat motif has a whole different connotation in China, where the creatures symbolize good luck.
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She hasn't always liked being singled out as a 'black swimmer' because she thinks it has a diminishing connotation, but she realizes how powerful a symbol she now is.
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"In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form," Fox said in a statement.
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"The 'loon' connotation also implies crazy or deranged and misses the fact that rational planning often occurs in the presence of a mental disorder," the West Point researchers wrote.
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I didn't want the label it was on to be a connotation for people, like, this is a Fat Wreck Chords release or this is a major label release.
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Dallas: Until Stefon Diggs's last-second 61-yard touchdown last Sunday against the New Orleans Saints, the term "Hail Mary" had a far more sinister connotation to Vikings fans.
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Simonyan renamed RIA Novosti's international branch Sputnik — "because I thought that's the only Russian word that has a positive connotation, and the whole world knows it," she told me.
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The president said at the time he's getting rid of the NAFTA name because it has a "bad connotation" due to the U.S. being "hurt very badly" under it.
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As Eater's Sara Jay recently wrote, authenticity is often code for cheap and has racial implications (for example, the connotation that all Asian or Mexican food should be cheap).
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Tax consultant Jessica Vachiratevanurak told county officials the club was "severely underperforming," and cited "some negative connotation that is associated with the brand" as the reason, according to the paper.
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From being called the word in a derogatory way throughout grade school, to watching movies where they called cowardly people yellow, it's always had a negative connotation in my life.
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But the phrase, even then, was contentious: With its connotation of a "rebirth," the word "renaissance" suggests there had been a lack of indigenous storytelling — which was never the case.
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Despite the current political climate and negative connotation of the term, a dark post is not a reference to a status posted by someone whose views differ from your own.
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In a Fed connotation, a put would be a point at which the central bank would not let the market fall below before it steps in with more policy stimulus.
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"It's interesting, though, that all physicians (in the new study) wore scrubs, and we know that this has a 'professional' connotation in the ER," Chopra told Reuters Health by email.
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"They have a racist connotation and are derogatory, mocking an individual who was recently the subject of officers' use of force," police chief Alfonso Morales told CNN of the tweets.
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Replacing 'disorder' with 'dysphoria' in the diagnostic label is not only more appropriate and consistent with familiar clinical sexology terminology, it also removes the connotation that the patient is 'disordered.
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Sharing that you are sad or angry about a post doesn't have the same negative connotation as, say, a downvote on Reddit — which is a more direct expression of dislike.
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Did you know that the BANK emoji carries a connotation of avoiding work responsibilities for Japanese users due to the presence of the letters 'BK' on the original Docomo artwork?
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"People talk about life hacking or travel hacking and there's no negative connotation," said a hacker who goes by wirefall and asked not to be identified by their real name.
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"Playground Elegy" resembles a slide as the act of having your hands up, which conveys a sense of freedom, shifts to a similar, but more desperate connotation in police confrontations.
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Particularly insulting, he said, was the connotation in her marketing that other Chinese food was unhealthy or unclean, which is a stereotype that Chinese restaurateurs have been fighting for decades.
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"I used an exaggerated expression of regard, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous," Hyde-Smith said in a statement, as Vox's Anna North reported.
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Again, this name is fitting for the population trends that occurred, but has a negative connotation that is related to problems outside the control of the people in the generation.
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The term also has a racial connotation, derived from a pornographic subgenre in which a man, often white, watches his wife have sex with an interloper, who is often black.
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It strikes me as having a very different connotation than "found family" or "chosen family," which are expressions that tend to be more in vogue when talking about queer families today.
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While the meme's connotation has changed in wake of the New Zealand shooting, and many creators have stepped back from it, fans continue to support him in spite of the controversies.
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Their films are what moviegoing audiences in the '00s called "chick flicks," though Smith and McCullah are still debating each other over whether or not the phrase has a negative connotation.
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When Aileen Lee, the founder of Cowboy Ventures, an investment fund, gave the word "unicorn" its current connotation in 2013, she saw the term as betokening something both wonderful and rare.
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He presented alternatives to hypermasculinity, embodying men who enjoy being submissive to women, who are are open to sexual lessons and advances from women, and who are vulnerable without negative connotation.
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But the Pope only uses the word populist in a narrow connotation, to refer to right-wing movements that exalt ethnic nationalism while portraying immigrants and elites as hostile alien forces.
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Its stinging connotation was validated in direct proportion to the contrived outrage of opposition politicians and cable news mannequins flopping to the ground and clutching their knees like European soccer players.
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"Too many people skip this step in order to avoid the negative connotation that unreasonably comes along with being single, yet wonder why relationship after relationship never work out," she said.
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Starting with USC, Georgetown and UNC Chapel Hill, his company struck deals with name-brand graduate schools to get some distance from the connotation of "online college" as a huckster's playground.
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This is on me, not Mr. Lim; this entry debuted in 1976, clued as "Swell!" and has never had a racy connotation in the puzzle, so I don't know — hey, wait!
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Walsh's tweet, however crude, touched on a wider debate about yoga's history as a spiritual practice, its relative secularization, and what it means for an activity to have a religious connotation.
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And Mr. DeSantis used Mr. Gillum's support from Senator Bernie Sanders to label him a "socialist," which has a more sinister connotation with these more recent émigrés than with many Americans.
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In her work, she reworks the negative connotation that we've culturally given to stretch marks and gives them a new meaning, forcing us to reflect on the construction of beauty stereotypes.
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Etymologically, "to educate" carries the connotation of "drawing out" or "leading forth"—and one does not do that merely with dry presentations of the relative duties of the three branches of government.
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There is very little evidence that recipient need is the primary driver of foreign aid for the United States and numerous other countries, despite the benevolent connotation of the term foreign aid.
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While budgeting often takes on a negative connotation, it can help you plan for a dream family vacation or determine how you are available to spoil children or grandchildren around the holidays.
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But over time, it has been used so often to refer to black people that it began to carry its own connotation — the racist idea that black people are criminals or violent.
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"After the Emmy nomination I feel more self-confident as a person and a storyteller, and I know that slow burn has a slight negative [connotation]," Weisberg, also an executive producer, said.
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But lowercase still retained this sort of antiauthoritarian connotation from the early days when it took less effort and people were not respecting the authority of the shift key, if you will.
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Whether you call it an eggplant, an aubergine, or a brinjal, it would be sheer folly to argue that the savory oblong fruit doesn't have a deeply phallic connotation in modern society.
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And while McMansions — large suburban homes that were built with mass-produced architecture from the 1980s to the early 2000s — once had a connotation of wealth, they're now lingering on the market.
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Every surface in the room around her was crowded with sex toys, weapons, and miscellaneous objects—a rubber chicken, a pair of velvet gloves—that took on a sinister connotation by association.
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According to the linguist Geoff Nunberg, it was sometime after the publication of "The Culture of Narcissism," an influential 1979 book by Christopher Lasch, that a certain negative connotation began to spread.
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But just as a healthy houseplant can have real therapeutical benefits, the death of a houseplant can have real psychological and emotional effects, especially considering the parental connotation we've given plant care.
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A friend in São Paulo had suggested that puta babaca might be a good way to describe a bumbling, Brazilian Clark Griswold, but he'd neglected to mention the phrase's more vulgar connotation.
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This unique Japanese subculture once had a negative connotation and was previously used to refer to an obsessive, withdrawn loner who had "taken leave of his senses", according to Wired's 1993 debut issue.
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Sunday: Amid West's strong interest in his continuation of Sunday Service, this day of the week not only holds a religious connotation, but it also signifies the 218-year-old Grammy winner's legacy.
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Because, as with "queer" or "dank" or even "bad," the word has evolved, and these days it can have a very different connotation depending on context and whose mouth it's coming out of.
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But if fans recognize assets from an online store, they're going to call it an "asset flip," a phrase that inherently has a negative connotation because it implies that developers are being lazy.
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"Contradiction" has a negative connotation, but by playing lots of different roles, and physically transforming, it becomes an expression of my belief in dramatic art, in cinema and theater, as a unifying force.
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Rights groups and other organizations designated by the Russian justice ministry as foreign agents, a term that carries a negative Soviet-era connotation, can be subjected to spot checks and face bureaucratic scrutiny.
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"I knew that name would forever have a destructive connotation on the island and yet I have a musical theater brain, so that's where I went in my head first," Miranda tells Today.
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"One striking conclusion regarding the situation in the Netherlands is that the continued occurrence of anti-semitic chants and songs has contributed to a negative connotation to the word 'Jew'," Joram tells me.
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I think for some other generations that may be the case, but I think my generation sees flamenco as something new and devoid of any connotation it may have held in the past.
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"Before, there was a negative connotation for a lot of them — this idea that if you rode a bike it meant you couldn't afford a car, that you weren't cool," Ms. Love said.
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Under normal circumstances, getting sneezed on in Animal Crossing would just be another funny little interaction, but in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak it has a whole different connotation to it.
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But the "sksksk" employed by stans and VSCO girls has an entirely different connotation, so it&aposs unclear whether it was inspired by ASMR or is more a product of key smash expressions.
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"Five or six years ago, crowdfunding was considered a strange concept — it was uncomfortable for people to ask friends and family for money, but now there's less of a negative connotation," Spiering said.
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"Now, I think 'rom-com' is sort of being used to mean something that's unimportant, or trifle, or surface, or shallow and so it has sort of become this negative connotation," he said.
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For the immediate connotation that many make between Sottsass and Memphis, the reality is that his tenure with the loose group of radicals he recruited lasted all of four years (the group's, about seven).
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While dark hues in general have a traditional connotation for funerals and mourning, the LBD has proved itself enough of a staple in modern times that we can do away with this antiquated notion.
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When the team added instruments to make detailed measurements of Bennu before grabbing the sample, Dr. Lauretta tacked Rex (Regolith Explorer) on to the name, because of the connotation with Tyrannosaurus rex and dinosaurs.
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At the current moment, the word billionaire is accompanied with almost a villainous connotation among much of the American public, especially on the left, and Warren appears to be trying to capitalize on it.
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"We're going to call it the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement," adding that the term Nafta — which he has called the "worst" trade deal in history — had "a bad connotation" for the United States.
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It's unlikely that real estate developers intend that connotation (these houses are positioned in real estate listings, rather, as "modern farmhouses," as "like-new" homes with historic charm, or as embodying "cutting-edge design").
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Russian authorities can designate groups it says receive funding from abroad as foreign agents - a term that carries a negative Soviet-era connotation - under a 2012 law that was heavily criticised by Western governments.
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There is also the connotation of birth (each person is individually curled up in the fetal position and together in an overlapping embrace) so that the canvas itself becomes a kind of large womb.
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"I was thinking about that phrase, 'I am that girl,' and how, when I was growing up there was a negative connotation for me to being bossy or taking control of a situation," Indell said.
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And "fad" can have sort of an ephemeral connotation, Are you worried at all that the attention on Goose Game could fade and people could see it as nothing more than one-and-done memes?
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The most common statements besides "Grow up!" or "Again, someone who wants to see racism everywhere," are those who explain that the swastika was actually a positive symbol before history gave it a negative connotation.
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I think he does, because to try to create some connotation that owning equity in a company that you busted your a— for is the equivalent of ownership in terms of people, that's just wrong.
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Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are currently studying why narcissists, or people with an inflated sense of importance and lack of empathy for others, seem to be increasingly common despite their negative connotation, BBC reported.
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Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are currently studying why narcissists, or people with an inflated sense of importance and lack of empathy for others, seem to be increasingly common despite their negative connotation, BBC reported.
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"They have taken an industry with a generally negative connotation and spun it into a positive experience," said John Lincoln, chief executive officer of Ignite Visibility, a search engine optimization and social media marketing company.
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Phil Jackson's description of LeBron James's business partners as his "posse" in an interview published by ESPN on Monday drew an angry response from James, who took offense at the racial connotation of the word.
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The City of Asbestos in Quebec, Canada, announced on Wednesday that it will change its moniker because the negative connotation hinders its ability to develop economic relationships abroad, the city said in a news release.
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Another obstacle for families in this situation is the negative connotation that often comes with the "sandwich" situation, said Geoffrey Owen, a certified financial planner and senior wealth manager at Charlotte, North Carolina-based GreerWalker.
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"In Hollywood, video game adaptations have routinely carried a dirty connotation, which isn't surprising given the level of epic failure the genre has endured since inception," said Jeff Bock, senior box-office analyst at Exhibitor Relations.
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While we don't like to use the word "flattering," (it holds an obsolete connotation that you need to dress for your body shape), the wrap tie does have a tendency to look good on almost everyone.
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Bound up in this generic spectral image is the connotation of the white sheet with the hoods of the KKK, and the fact that "spook" was once a well-known derogatory term for an African American.
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The deep red fruit is a popular pattern on lingerie and adolescent girls' clothing, which, considering its connotation of purity and sex appeal, is reason enough to never dress your daughter in a cherry-printed dress.
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In Netflix's upcoming Santa Clarita Diet, Drew Barrymore plays the undead Sheila Hammond ("zombie" has a negative connotation), your everyday realtor trying to spend time with her family and curb her urges to consume human flesh.
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" Dr. Cheryl Cooky, president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, believes that it's going to take more than one individual coming out to change the negative connotation of the "gay male athlete.
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When The Hills premiered in May of 2006, the song—produced by Danielle Brisebois and Wayne Rodrigues—was soon stripped of any original connotation to Joshua Bedingfield and fast became known as, well, The Hills song.
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John Locke, a professor of linguistics at the City University of New York, said that in some contexts the use of the word government had a positive connotation: government bonds and government-backed programs, for example.
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"The problem with saying it's 'an opioid' without qualification is that it just paints everything with this broad brush, and obviously carries a negative connotation given what's going on in the country right now," Kruegel says.
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Melanie Moore, the Season 8 winner who has gone on to a successful Broadway career, said the show either holds little value for theater directors or has a negative connotation because of its reality TV roots.
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"I don't like the fact Conservatives have that negative connotation — that we're always against things, always 'tackling' something, 'cracking down' on something, or 'getting tough' on something else," he told The National Post, a Toronto newspaper.
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And so City of Girls follows the mile-a-minute goings-on of Vivian, a bright-eyed 19-year-old dripping with curiosity who checks off every connotation of the word "virginal" one could possibly procure.
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She and her husband, Nathan Bond, the company's C.E.O., started Rifle out of his parents' garage apartment ten years ago (choosing the name simply because she liked it, not for any connotation of shuffling through papers).
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As the national conversation about the removal of Confederate monuments has ignited in the aftermath of the tragedy in Charlottesville, chef Tom Colicchio is making a major move to eliminate the racial connotation of his own business.
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Outside of its charity connotation, the White Castle candle is one of those things that's perhaps better displayed than actually used, as the candle's scent is actually meant to invoke the entire slider, beef, onions, and all.
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By removing the term 'alien' from its legislative labor code (when referring to unauthorized immigrants), California encouraged the remaining 49 states to understand the term's negative connotation as an individual whose identity is falsely labeled as illegal.
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Moreover, they would have noticed that Mr. Bannon had taken the term out of context, invoking it in a call for cultural and military conflict rather than for spiritual warfare, particularly within one's soul, its longstanding connotation.
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A fashion blogger tagging her "favorite" basicswear brand on Instagram or a popular gamer name-dropping his "go-to" headset model mid-stream doesn't carry the same heavy-handed transactional connotation as, say, Steve Carrell hawking Pepsi.
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The Democratic National Committee elected to strip superdelegates of much of their power, but just as important, the idea of influential party insiders playing a significant role in the nomination carries a negative connotation among the grassroots.
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But when you think about who "Pops" is, and what his legacy will be, you realize John Witherspoon, who died Tuesday at the age of 77, was a working actor in the most triumphant connotation of the title.
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Four years later, as Mr. Buttigieg pursues the Democratic nomination for president, his use of the phrase "all lives matter" — which has often carried the connotation of ignoring the specific grievances of black Americans — has come under scrutiny.
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All told, "Chester B. Himes" is a bracing journey through the life of an uncompromising writer who considered himself "an evil, highly sensitive, unsuccessful old man — but … not an American Negro in the usual connotation of the word."
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"Part of the reason aging has such a negative connotation is this sense that you can't cure older people's problems," said Dr. Kenneth Brummel-Smith, a professor of geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee, Fla.
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The resort has struggled financially since Trump took office, with its net operating income falling 69% over the past two years — in part thanks to "some negative connotation that is associated with the brand," the Post reported in May.
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"Cobble Hill," a since-leveled ridge used by George Washington as a lookout during the Battle of Brooklyn, was first used to designate a neighborhood in 1959; the current connotation of "Boerum Hill" dates from around the same time.
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Similar to Shakespeare's play, the reference to the sex slaves as "comfort women" and "halmonies" impose a positive connotation on a subject that dare not be taken lightly, as we sometimes come to disregard the injustices these women endured.
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But how is a concept that was formed during Roman persecution of early Christians and took on a martial connotation during the Crusades meant to be understood in a democratic, capitalist, polyglot, multimedia society like the modern United States?
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In Katarzyna Kozyra's video "Performance as Lou Salome" (2005) a video installation documenting a performance she did around the Schwarzenberg garden and palace in Vienna, the issue seems to be the connotation in the work comparing men and dogs.
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With over 4,000 likes on his "average" Instagram photo and hundreds of thousands of video views, we have a feeling Shark Week is going to take on a much sexier connotation this summer now that Sudal is on the scene.
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On the other hand, some agree that calling attention to this issue in big, loud ways, like Rexha's declaration on Instagram — despite the connotation that the entire industry is to blame — is the only way for real change to happen.
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"The Simpsons" chose Springfield as a hometown for the average American connotation of the name — it's not true that every state has a Springfield, but 35 states do — but that knock doesn't do the Massachusetts' Springfield justice as a business hub.
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An upside-down face meant literally nothing at all until social media users imbued it with a "lol, nothing matters" connotation a couple of years ago, and an eggplant emoji meant an eggplant for only the briefest period of its life.
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At the same time, you'll see cracking used to refer to breaking, say, digital copyright protections—which many people feel is a just and worthy cause—and in other contexts, such as penetration testing (see below), without the negative connotation.
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"Watches have taken a bad connotation, in that there's been a significant amount of social media activity depicting this or that officer sporting a €10,203 or €20,000 or €50,000 watch," explained Luca Solca, a luxury goods analyst at Exane BNP Paribas.
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Connotation is a lot harder to pin down on television, much less in transcripts, but a review of several instances show that saying "the president" often seemed to drive home the idea that Trump won the election, fair and square.
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Thanks to the internet, people aren't as caged in, they're able to read a lot of things, especially science and engineering papers that don't involve any ideology connotation, so they're free to be published and made available anywhere in the world.
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"Strident," for one, much like the terms "shrill" and "abrasive," is a word that's developed a gendered connotation — and more often than not is levied in ways to criticize women on a personal level, suggesting that they're difficult to be around.
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Just this week, DeSoto County became the first county in Mississippi to pass a resolution protecting itself against gun control laws, declaring itself a Second Amendment "safe haven" to avoid the connotation of the word sanctuary with the immigration movement.
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The resort has struggled financially since Trump took office, with its net operating income falling 69% over the past two years — in part thanks to "some negative connotation that is associated with the brand," the Washington Post reported in May.
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State officials have interpreted the law to include any clothing or accessory that a reasonable observer sees as having a political connotation, including anything that names a candidate or politically affiliated group like the AFL-CIO or Chamber of Commerce.
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Here's what they can teach us about how to live an extraordinary life: The word "foolish" often carries a negative connotation, but the implied meaning here has more to do with humility and a willingness to forgo self-importance than anything else.
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But if you set aside the embarrassing family holiday cards of years past and think about a different kind of holiday photo — one that involves cozy flannel, steaming cups of cocoa, Christmas tree lights, and snow-topped hills — the connotation is much better.
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Many say they are here because they want to see the stigma around cannabis reduced—the head shop owner, Robin Ellins of the Friendly Stranger, says we should replace the term "cannabis user" with "cannabis consumer" because "user" carries a negative connotation.
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In recent years, though, the low bun has been reclaimed, just as a certain kind of womanhood has: Why should looking like a wife or mother (or a woman who simply needs her hair out of her face) have a negative connotation?
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" In "High Flying Bird," an exhilarating and argumentative caper concerning a sports agent, his N.B.A.-rookie client and other interested parties, the phrase takes on a slightly different connotation — something akin to "the workers should seize control of the means of production.
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Knowles also tells us he believes the term "breast cancer" should be changed to "chest cancer" for men ... due to both the embarrassing connotation and the fact many men don't even believe it pertains to them, so they don't bother getting tested.
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The fear of failure keeps too many bright and capable minds from shooting for the stars, prevents them from reaching their full potential and, in turn, impedes the growth and innovation of society as a whole — all because of the negative connotation of failure.
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" As Columbia University pharmacologist Andrew Kruegel told Tonic last month, "The problem with saying it's 'an opioid' without qualification is that it just paints everything with this broad brush, and obviously carries a negative connotation given what's going on in the country right now.
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When it comes to the use of "plus-size" versus "curvy," the negative connotation that is readily associated with the former isn't the only issue — the problems also lay in the lack of (stylish) available options for women who cannot wear a "standard" fit.
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After a year, the Green Zone had acquired another connotation, as a byword for disastrous flaws in the invasion: the failure to stop looters or to restore Iraq's electricity; the decision to disband the Iraqi Army; the blindness to a growing resistance to the occupation.
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He told a conference of teachers in Washington in 19693 that Negro "is used solely to describe the slaved and the enslavable," and that the time had come to shift to Afro-American as a connotation of ethnic identity, like, for example, Irish-American.
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I know it's not about religion but there's an almost spiritual connotation to "It Calls on Me."It's meant to sound like a song about religion, but is more or less about panic attacks, and the feeling of being at the mercy of some unexplainable otherworldly force.
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" Tristan Cassel / The Hollywood Reporter In a statement to The Wrap this afternoon, Fox promised that the billboards had been taken down, and explained, "In our enthusiasm to show the villainy of the character Apocalypse we didn't immediately recognize the upsetting connotation of this image in print form.
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Not only is it a super invasive question — because it's no one's business what Dobrev eats — but it also comes with a negative connotation: That in order to look "hot" or pull off a certain look, a woman has to eat a certain way or exercise twice a day.
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"The word 'propaganda' has a very negative connotation, but indeed, there is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from," Simonyan said, according to an article in Business Insider from January.
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Some fund experts have argued that the word "zero" doesn't have a positive marketing connotation when it comes to investments and that might limit appeal, but so far, it seems the intense fee war in the fund world has reached the point where "zero" is a selling point.
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But the word attained more of a negative connotation during the 20th century as it become associated with the nationalism movements in Europe that helped lead to World War I and World War II. Today the word is often associated with the far-right, racist ideologies of white nationalists.
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Adam KinzingerAdam Daniel KinzingerGOP lawmaker condemns Trump over 'human scum' comment CNN: Biden likened Clinton impeachment to 'partisan lynching' in 1998 AOC: Trump comparing impeachment inquiry to a lynching is 'atrocious' MORE (R-Ill.) blasted the remarks, calling on the president to disavow his comments due to the historical connotation.
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But Kopec said the key was in the cords, and insisted that I'd need to find a way to deal with the clusterfuck that is the power strip under my desk, or that I change up the music that I listen to in order to give the disarray a positive connotation.
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But I think that it's also just like, a word that's developed a bad connotation—kind of like, the same way that if someone were to call you a "foodie," you would kind of be like, ew, or if someone were to call me a "rock star," I'd be like, ugh.
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The backlash began as soon as the song aired, Twitter users calling the group out for not only changing the lyrics but for the "All Lives Matter" message, which has taken on a negative connotation in the U.S. as it's often used as a rebuttal from those opposing the Black Lives Matter movement.
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To be honest, I never really liked the name Big Brother at first because of the Orwellian nature of it, but then it started taking on a different connotation: We are the big brother that is going to show the way and tell you the shit your parents would never tell you.
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It is of little comfort that President Trump may use the concept not to call up its original connotation, though it does, but rather to describe his vision of an America that would elevate self-gain and close-mindedness over the traditional values of generosity and openness that underlie this country's greatness.
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The cultural connotation of aligoté may have particular meaning today in a region where newfound fame and wealth may in the long run overwhelm a culture built on the image of the community of vignerons, the small farmers who tend the vines, make the wines and know the land inside and out.
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And yet nothing about their inclusion could possibly be construed as positive connotation—the only things to be done with a Nazi here is to avoid him, distract him, knock him out, drug him, shoot him, blow him up, run him over...the solutions to your various Nazi problems s are pleasantly open-ended.
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Why it matters: A note from a tax consultant employed by The Trump Organization to a Miami official stated that the property faces "some negative connotation that is associated with the brand," which the Post notes is the first time that someone employed by Trump has acknowledged that the president's name could affect business.
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A fixture in law enforcement practices since the 19th century, mugshots soon gained ubiquity in crime reports published by newspapers, tabloids, and television, becoming "imbued with a connotation of guilt even though they are created prior to a person's conviction," researcher and journalist Mary Angela Bock and colleagues wrote in the journal Journalism Studies in 2016.
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" The editorial, co-written with NIDA's Volkow and another colleague, concluded, "It is clear that any harm that might occur because of the pejorative connotation of addiction would be completely outweighed by the tremendous harm that is now being done to patients who have needed medication withheld because their doctors believe they are addicted simply because they are dependent.
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While searching for an affordable (cheap has a negative connotation, don't you think?) hair dryer, you'll want to keep an eye out for a few factors: Wattage: Look for a dryer between 1,400 and 1,875 watts to ensure it has enough power to cut down on drying time, but won't leave hair feeling dry or damaged.
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From his campaign ad that some have noted featured anti-Semitic rhetoric, to his refusal to come down in straightforward fashion against neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, to his insistence on using the term "nationalist" despite the connotation it bears, it is not difficult to see why white nationalists would believe (rightly or wrongly) that he is on their side.
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En janvier dernier, plus de 100 femmes, dont Catherine Deneuve, ont signé une tribune au Monde condamnant le mouvement #MeToo, estimant qu'il punissait injustement les hommes quand, sur leur lieu de travail, ils avaient " tenté de voler un baiser, parlé de choses 'intimes' lors d'un dîner professionnel " ou " envoyé des messages à connotation sexuelle à une femme chez qui l'attirance n'était pas réciproque ".
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A number of high-profile figures on the far right have helped spread the gesture's racist connotation by flashing it conspicuously in public, including Milo Yiannopolous, an outspoken former Breitbart editor, and Richard B. Spencer, one of the promoters of the white power rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 that resulted in the death of a 32-year-old woman.
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"Even if the text isn't inherently racist (it had less of those trappings back in my day, although there is maybe some ethnic caricature in its name I guess), it's being employed by alt-right types pretty frequently, and so it's got that connotation on it now," Milner, who is an assistant professor at the College of Charleston, told me in an email.
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GOLDBERG: Well, I mean, this has been a trend in the polls for a while now and some of it has to do with the sort of -- the Cold War is so far behind us in the rearview mirror that socialism has lost its connotation or association with the rivers of blood that were spilled in its name for most of the 20th century.
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The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as "Anatomy of a Kimono" (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and "Wonderland" (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.
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