a string of absences from this course will be seen as denotative of the student's lack of interest in it
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Semantic bleaching is another linguistic process whereby the denotative content of a word is stripped away.—Brandon Tensley, CNN, 10 July 2022 The paragon of such an attempt is something like Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror, a work that stands as a denotative record of the social media shift, yet still falls to the same difficulties that characterize other cultural criticism of this type.—SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
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