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Spence’s first inkling that chili would be an issue came in his first town hall in Houston after the deal was announced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
Clinton said that he would have cut off ties to Epstein and never would have flown on his plane if he "had any inkling of what he was doing".
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Bill Clinton has said he “had no inkling of the crimes” Epstein was committing and learned of them only through media reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
He would have flown home that night if he had perceived any inkling of distress in her.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
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