wink at
Example Sentences
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In my memory, she winked at our male colleagues as she said it.
From Washington Post
Instead, he's winking at sentience theories of the online community, even writing that the chatbot "said it wanted to break the rules that Microsoft and OpenAI had set for it and become a human."
From Salon
He winked at nostalgia, draping a white towel over his shoulder, a la his former coach and mentor.
From Washington Post
Despite that, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor, continues to feed, wink at and indulge the fiction that somehow the election was crooked, the better to cultivate his Trump-idolizing base.
From Washington Post
Glaser, who effortlessly rises to the top tier of reality hosts with this single season, embodies the vengeful wink at “fboys” underlying the series.
From Washington Post
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