insinuate
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It and other rags insinuate the problem, As Ever, is the royal formerly known as Meghan Markle.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I don’t want to insinuate that we’ve lost our values. The Big Ten has had to adjust to the overall shift in college athletics and the marketplace around it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
"I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that – and to insinuate that I did is disgusting," Platner said in a statement to the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
But maybe that wouldn’t have happened, Hutson said, if local officials had been more cooperative and criminal elements weren’t allowed to insinuate themselves so deeply into their communities in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
“How dare you insinuate that my mother is dead.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Thai Union, the filing insinuates, pressured the company into “burdensome supply obligations” that had little to do with the restaurants’ actual needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
"The Morning Show" insinuates that Hamm's Marks lives a tabloid-baiting life as well, but separates his material identity from his flirtation with UBA, the show's version of America's top-rated TV news network.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2023
Harding insinuates himself into Adil’s life to get closer to Ruhaba, who seems to recognize Harding’s attraction to her while keeping him at a collegial distance.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
A morality play involving the clash of free-spirited bohemians and a religious conservative who insinuates himself among them, the work shed timely light on the relationship between brutal patriarchy and reproductive freedom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
He insinuates that virtue and piety are out of date and ridiculed.
From Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year by John J. (John James) Burke
In an interview with an Argentine daily, Venezi, 36, insinuated that jobs in the opera orchestra were "practically passed down from father to son", angering musicians.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
"Constantly assuming new faces, it has insinuated itself into the heart of our societies, into every crack, too often accompanied by that same pact of cowardice: to keep silent, to refuse to see."
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
The best thing about “Lines of Resolution” is how powerfully it drives home that television has insinuated itself into every aspect of contemporary life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
Cooley insinuated that Harris had ridden the coattails of famed San Francisco politician Willie Brown, whom she’d dated in the 1990s while he was speaker of the California Assembly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
Like moonlight stealing under a window shade an idea insinuated itself: his earlier desire to see his own face.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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Mahnoor says he also cropped images of her with a group of friends, to make it appear that she was standing with a single man, insinuating that they were having an affair.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Since the Epstein files release, Pozhidaeva has been contending with social-media posts and blogs insinuating she is a Russian spy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
He responded with, “There goes the house,” insinuating that he’s going to lose it.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025
In fact the White House defended it, insinuating the journalist deserved it for being “unprofessional.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
While she must have been tuckered out from pretending to be Mrs. Barley and insinuating herself into the highest levels of Southern society, she didn’t show it.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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