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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

LONDON—The first inkling that a thaw in the relations between Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, came earlier this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

But as they were walking from the house towards the Orangery—where the guardians had their living quarters—Tommy began to get an inkling this was something different.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Complaints about Copland’s leftist leanings pressured Eisenhower to cancel the performance, but left inklings in Ike’s mind that the nation needed a performing arts center in Washington, D.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

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

We get one of the first inklings of Captain's true mastery of language whenever he's challenged by one of the incarnations of Robert Downey Jr. in the series.

From Salon ● May 12, 2024

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