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"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

Beijing got an inkling that Trump thought more transactionally about Taiwan than his predecessors in 2017, during his first state visit to China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

But I myself didn’t cry about Papa, or have any inkling of what was wrenching Mama’s heart, until the next time I saw him, almost a year later.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

I had had these intuitive inklings that something was being withheld from me and something was off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

But that orphans’ home inspired no inklings of thankfulness in my heart.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan