clue
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But if there is one clue that begins to illuminate the greatest mystery of the 2026 baseball season, it’s in Skenes’s velocity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Detecting it in fossil bone therefore provides an additional chemical clue that degraded collagen is present.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Didn’t have a clue, you know. And that’s why people who are poor students sometimes become very successful — because they fight against the odds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
One possible clue to women's slightly higher long-term returns lies in how often they buy and sell their investments, with Barclays data showing that women trade around half as frequently as men.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"Deirdre's photo is an important clue," George said.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
This next level of entities often had names that offered few if any clues on the Walter businesses and investments behind them, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Although the intact pot has not provided many direct clues about how it was used, its archaeological setting adds another piece to the larger history being reconstructed at the site.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s upcoming speech at the Jackson Hole symposium will be the key event for investors seeking interest rate clues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Crinoid fossils give paleontologists important clues about how early animals evolved and how complex life developed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nancy and George wanted to look for more clues.
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
How could the clueless become clued if their peers weren’t picking on their every lame move?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
No one clued in Dale about this, or anybody else, for that matter.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Investors in GameStop may have clued in to the financing arrangements of the deal, which could dilute shareholders.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Trump needs to be clued in about California geography and its complex water system because he doesn’t seem to know California water from a sea otter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
A cloud of dust from the northeast clued me in to company coming.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Anyone can check it out, but it’s geared toward cluing in ranchers in an effort to prevent wolf-livestock conflict.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2025
Some still maintain that the Knicks’ envelope was frozen or had a bent corner, cluing in NBA Commissioner and native New Yorker David Stern as to which envelope to choose.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2023
Not long after, there’s Jim Carroll’s rocking, doom-soaked “People Who Died,” cluing viewers in to the fact that a whole bunch of these people aren’t long for the picture.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
And by gesturing broadly toward Jim’s painful past without fully cluing us in, the movie provides only the barest justification for his descent into vigilantism.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
Without cluing in Byrd or even Ray, Axel starts back up the driveway.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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