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I got my first inkling of this potential when a colleague dismissed my project idea by saying that I lacked the relevant expertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and 2017, showed no inkling of a long-lived formation, either. The Hubble data confirmed the feature's presence back to 2023."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“That was my first really inkling of what my daddy did,” he said, “and the type of people that were at the club.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
“I had no inkling that it was Janie, none, even though she had told me weeks later, that she did it and blah, blah, blah,” Ortiz told me.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
One began to get an inkling of what law was about only when the time came to practice it.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
That’s how science works: You come up with a good idea backed by some inklings of evidence, you gather more information, and you often learn you were wrong.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025
“Family Remix” captures that process in the docuseries, starting from his first inklings of wanting to chronicle each step through his first-person account in People magazine.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024
This New-England-like region gives first inklings of that hygge feeling — the Danish word for quiet winter comfort.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
And what were your first inklings that this wasn’t the whole story?
From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023
But that orphans’ home inspired no inklings of thankfulness in my heart.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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