inkling
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“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
"I'm outgoing and very confident and I love being around people," Auer says, "but I get that inkling that they all think I'm stupid and ugly, and that my life is a continuum of mistakes."
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
Those jobs gave him an inkling that computers would someday fit in our hands and pockets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
It was not as though he was really surprised, thought Harry, as he wrestled with a thorny vine intent upon throttling him; he had had an inkling that this might happen sooner or later.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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