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“When the business is small, but you have an inkling that you don’t know what the potential upside is, that is the best time to sign a prenup,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

There was no inkling that he would end up down the road at Highbury instead, the deal sealed during clandestine meetings with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and vice-chairman David Dein.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

The choice of “Psycho Killer” is purposefully on the nose, and nothing onscreen gives an inkling of awkwardness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Harry saw Yaxley’s head turn, saw an inkling of the truth dawn in that brutish face.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

From Scientific American ● Nov. 9, 2023

Lexy Silverstein, a digital marketing student at FIDM, has heard inklings about this potential partnership and said she could be affected, depending when it is implemented.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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