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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
“If you have pretty good inkling what you want to do,” Maslin urged, “vote.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 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
She said: "We had no inkling that the shoot was going to be used for Vogue."
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
The beginnings of an idea scratched at the back of his skull, an itch, the barest inkling.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
There were few inklings when we met of what would unfold, but the Middle East that Carter had spent so much time navigating was about to come undone yet again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
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
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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