suggestion
Example Sentences
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The rink in Milan, approved by the International Ice Hockey Federation, is shorter than the minimum requirement in the NHL, leading to suggestions there could be an increase in high-speed collisions.
From BBC
We are surrounded by the suggestion, rarely stated outright but hard to miss, that dinnertime should be an ongoing exercise in novelty.
From Salon
In their fiction—mostly novels for Woolf, short stories for Mansfield—they experimented by replacing linear narrative and descriptive detail with suggestion and symbolism.
The rest of “The Rise and Fall of Rational Control,” devoted to German thinkers, draws out the implications of Rousseau’s extraordinary suggestion.
It feels more like an order than a friendly suggestion.
From Literature
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