signify
verb (used with object)
to make known by signs, speech, or action.
has signified
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present perfectof signify (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, running until the eve of Valentine’s Day, has signified the start of Pacific Northwest spring for more than 30 years.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
But without truly understanding what the Izett name has signified for more than 80 years, the door was just another door.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 16, 2014
And yet for more than two centuries a commitment to covering foreign news has signified a U.S. news organization's ambition to be taken seriously.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2009
For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has resolved, she has signified to me that she has resolved——” She raised to him a look of supplication, but he continued more plainly, “that she has resolved to take the veil.”
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
