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inkling

[ingk-ling] / ˈɪŋk lɪŋ /


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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

Although I don’t know the details, I have an inkling about what may have sparked the confrontation with Julian.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

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

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


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