clue
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“I had kids come to class after saying, ‘Miss, I had no clue what half the material was, I’m not going to lie to you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The presence of fluorite provides an important clue about the conditions that produced them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
One clue that the precipitous drop might be getting overdone: The company has continued to report double-digit year-over-year revenue growth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
When referee Michael Oliver blew his whistle to award Erling Haaland's goal, few would have had any clue the real offside situation involved Enzo Fernandez.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I left the clue for you, Penny. I had hoped one day you would figure it out, and find comfort in knowing where we were, at least.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
These rare signals carry clues to where the neutrinos came from and the extreme conditions that produced them — allowing scientists to investigate places that ordinary telescopes cannot easily see.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The reading will offer further clues on the U.S. economy’s health, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That stability suggests γ-Fe could act as a previously unrecognized recorder of magnetic information in lunar material, preserving clues about conditions that existed during the Moon's past.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
The attribution to Samuel is based on clues including the location of the tomb, the sumptuousness of the garment, the age of the deceased and an old fracture.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
We’d leave each other notes and scavenger hunt clues and other random stuff.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
How could the clueless become clued if their peers weren’t picking on their every lame move?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
An American tourist called Dorothy said she wasn't worried about visiting Angkor as she was clued in to travel logistics and border rules, saying she felt "very safe".
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
The trunk lights were flashing and clued the officers to someone being inside the vehicle, Irvine police Public Information Officer Kyle Oldoerp said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
What first clued me in to the remarkable frequency with which complaints about men’s cleanliness appear on Reddit was repeatedly encountering one of the most awfully evocative euphemisms in the English language: skid mark.
From Slate ● May 17, 2024
A cloud of dust from the northeast clued me in to company coming.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Anyone can check it out, but it’s geared toward cluing in ranchers in an effort to prevent wolf-livestock conflict.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2025
Some still maintain that the Knicks’ envelope was frozen or had a bent corner, cluing in NBA Commissioner and native New Yorker David Stern as to which envelope to choose.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2023
Not long after, there’s Jim Carroll’s rocking, doom-soaked “People Who Died,” cluing viewers in to the fact that a whole bunch of these people aren’t long for the picture.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
The lighting, by Peter Kaczorowski, is aptly moody while cluing us in to the play’s many kinds of reality.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
Without cluing in Byrd or even Ray, Axel starts back up the driveway.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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