Thesaurus results for CONNOTED

connoted

verb

past tense of connote

as in implied

formal, of a word to make you think about (something) in addition to the word's meaning The word "childlike" connotes innocence. For her, the word "family" connotes love and comfort.

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Recent Examples of connoted The song is not, as might be connoted, about foreshadowing death, but the dissolution of a romance. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 2 June 2026

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The exterior of the Bowden house was found in Atlanta, and then McCall built a set for the interiors that was intended to convey the history implied in the script.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Chief competitor FedEx released its own guidance for the 2026 calendar year, which implied 20 percent earnings per share growth from June through December.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

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Despite its correction, EWZ remains in a cyclical bull trend as defined by the weekly cloud model, denoted by the shaded area on the chart, which provides support for the uptrend aligned with former resistance near $34.

— Katie Stockton, CNBC, 13 July 2026
California is not experiencing a uniform decline in violent crime as denoted in the California Crime Statistics 2026.

— Linh Tat, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

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That signified everything that Joe and Angela had swept under the rug.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Democrats may be looking at a different kind of red wave this year based on Tuesday night’s primary results, a throwback to when the color red signified not the Republican Party, but socialism.

— W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026

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Wahab previously said her bill is meant to prevent that same sort of abuse of taxpayer money in her district, which covers parts of Alameda and Santa Clara counties.

— Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
The extreme demand for these shows — driven even higher after two headline-making nights — meant huge crowds of would-be concertgoers outside the ballpark on Sunday evening.

— Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026

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