connote

While the color of fresh olive oil does not connote quality, the color change as it sits on a shelf does.

It connotes the unusual, the peculiar, the weird, the marginal.

She mentions “flat lawn” without irony — it is a Hollywood marker connoting accessibility not only geographic but on a shifting scale determined by zeitgeist, fame and the whims of luck.

Pink connotes dawn, the promise of coming daylight.

“It connotes fraud, ballot stuffing and false claims like those of Donald Trump. I think what’s remarkable is Democrats very quickly rallied to say, ‘No, we don’t use that language.’”