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inkling

[ingk-ling] / ˈɪŋk lɪŋ /


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I’m happy because if I had had even an inkling she was the Manhunter, I might have brought an alien touch to the scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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

But it’s ludicrous that the country’s ace legal reporters never provided the public even an inkling of these legal defects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

I can tell you of the waves and water, but you don’t begin to get an inkling of its size until you stand on the shore.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Those were like little inklings of the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

And what were your first inklings that this wasn’t the whole story?

From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023

The hall was left completely in darkness save for some inklings of dawn at the smashed door and where the windows were.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye




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