insinuate
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The Degas’ whereabouts remained a mystery, but the case suggests that Doyle was learning how to insinuate himself in the blue-chip center of the art world, not merely on its fringes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
"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
They will insinuate, if not outright say, they are more than a baseball team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
The real purpose is to insinuate that this person doesn't deserve the basic presumption of privacy.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024
“How dare you insinuate that my mother is dead.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Sibarium insinuates that Lucero has exercised undue influence over residency acceptances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
Even the job title insinuates that we are not people, but literal background—like a painting or flowerpot that is placed on a table to make the walls look less bare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 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 small seating area has been colonized by Gillen’s prints and handmade artist books; a commanding aluminum triptych insinuates itself over the dining table.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
It is in the upper part of the interspace which separates these latter from the brachialis anticus that the deltoid insinuates itself to proceed to its insertion into the humerus.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
"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
He also insinuated that his son was less than a man, a trauma that might explain Shepard’s stoic cowboy persona as well as his fear that his father was right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 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
Renaldo Gouws initially insinuated one of the videos was doctored and denied it but a statement issued by the DA on Thursday said it was "genuine and not a fake".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
“There is a definite agitating element” in antipoverty agencies in Durham, Galifianakis insinuated, and asked the FBI’s assistance in uncovering the “troublemakers.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Despite her efforts, Vicki's daughter struggled to gain weight and she felt like medical staff were insinuating she was "not doing enough" and "starving" her baby.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
At the time of Pratt’s announcement, a rep for Mayor Karen Bass issued a scathing response, insinuating that the bid was little more than a publicity stunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
He responded with, “There goes the house,” insinuating that he’s going to lose it.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025
I have lived, Jhabvala said, like “a cuckoo forever insinuating myself into others’ nests.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Even now, she could feel the magic pulsing under her skin, each filament insinuating itself between cells, through tissues, filling up her bones.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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