inkling
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I got my first inkling of this potential when a colleague dismissed my project idea by saying that I lacked the relevant expertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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
“If you have pretty good inkling what you want to do,” Maslin urged, “vote.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
Bobby had an inkling that disaster might strike and was well prepared.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
I had an inkling as to why he had come.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
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
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