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as in connotation
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as in assent
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Recent Examples of acceptation
The use of chainsaws to cut down trees prior to intentionally burning a stand, known as prescribed fire, is the major acceptation.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for acceptation
Noun
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Despite the negative connotations of their blood-feeding behavior, oxpeckers are also known to offer a beneficial service to their mammalian hosts by removing parasites.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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To be sure, local control has very real and troubling historic connotations.—
Maria Flynn,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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To be effective, the speech acts that bind us together or break us apart require the assent of our whole society.—
Melissa Ragain,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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Beyond the power of the purse, the nominations process is one of the few times the executive branch requires assent from the Senate for its planned initiatives.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There is a French idiom that says when something is so easy, it can be done with ‘les doigts dans le nez’ — the fingers in the nose.—
Liam Tharme,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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While often used sarcastically to mock true believers, the idiom reflects Italy’s enduring ambiguity toward Fascism, even 80 years after its fall.—
Mattia Ferraresi,
airmail.news,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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While human subjects need to provide consent to be studied, most species do not.—
Bradley Wade Bishop,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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Saravia-Sanchez served 242 days in jail for taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, after a May 2023 felony conviction in L.A. Superior Court, according to the federal complaint.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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However, to encounter Diane Von Furstenberg, her life, her fashion line, her accomplishments, is to experience an exhibition that belongs at the Skirball and speaks to that institution’s mandate, as a powerful expression of Jewish identity and culture.—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Campbell said Chiles, who sees her work as an expression of her Christian faith, has had to decline taking on clients but did not specify how often that has happened.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The latest is an agreement with Iraq to rehabilitate the Kirkuk oilfield.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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The California Department of Human Resources said individual departments determine which employees are eligible for the stipend based on the telework agreements.—
William Melhado,
Sacramento Bee,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But the New Zealand Department of Conservation lists the reptiles as at risk — relict, a denotation reserved for species that declined to a small population but have since stabilized.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
22 July 2024
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Language, unlike code, has connotations and denotations that make organizing it for human consumption a much more complex task, says Dr. Harbin.—
Leonardo Bevilacqua,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 June 2024
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In Georgia, Putin has linked up with the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose political party, Georgian Dream, has undermined democratic institutions and suspended the country’s accession talks with the European Union for four years.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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Ukraine’s accession to the EU and NATO would include a comparable commitment on Kyiv’s part.—
STEPHEN HADLEY,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Acceptation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acceptation. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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