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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of denote.

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Examples

  • But the judge not only closed off the fair comment defence; he ruled, without giving much indication that he was paying close attention to the arguments or the relevant text, that the term denoted conscious and deliberate dishonesty.

    Colby Cosh 2010

  • We at the Kennedy Center -- where the title denoted a three-day celebration of the end of President Michael M. Kaiser's 50-state, 14-month Arts in Crisis tour -- are in tune with the times.

    'An American Playlist' wraps up with NSO, John Mayer, Smokey Robinson and more 2010

  • Several people who have talked to military officials said that the officers objected to election "monitors" because they believed the word denoted supervision or control, but that "observers" from nongovernment organizations would be welcome.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK 2011

  • Several people who have talked to military officials said that the officers objected to election "monitors" because they believed the word denoted supervision or control, but that "observers" from nongovernment organizations would be welcome.

    NYT > Global Home By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK 2011

  • The alleged aliens described by Bob Lazar supposedly viewed humans as "containers," but whether this term denoted DNA or something transcendent was never satisfactorily explained.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006

  • But, at all events, it showed no ordinary ability and energy for so young a man to have held such position as this title denoted in the fiercely contested political struggles of the new democracy.

    Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • I have a title denoted in the code on my overall header page.

    phpBB.com 2009

  • King made no comment, but his expression denoted belief.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Her expression denoted a little impromptu wrestling match-reluctance, annoyance, and good manners doing takedowns.

    I is for Innocent Grafton, Sue 1992

  • When she saw that the stranger bent his eyes a great portion of the time on herself, and that their expression denoted the same sentiment in him as filled her own bosom, she turned her face away to fix them in listless gaze upon a distant object.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

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  • Detoned in reverse.

    July 22, 2007