clue
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"The horrible thing about mesothelioma is that you haven't a clue that you've got it until it's too late."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Rhys: No, I’m desperately intrigued as to what she has in mind because I wouldn’t have the first clue as to where to start Season 2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
A paper by Elias Einiö, Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel, accepted for publication in the American Economic Review, offers a clue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The newly observed plasma vortices may offer an important clue to how the Sun stores and releases energy within its magnetic field, including through tiny bursts of radiation called nanoflares.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
She opened her notebook and wrote in the clue column: Hay outside the animal pen.
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
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Investors are set to hang on Warsh’s words for clues to the central bank’s rate-setting path.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The BOT gave few clues about its next move, saying only that the committee “views that the current policy rate is appropriate to support economic recovery,” said Capital Economics’ Gareth Leather in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Huss was running about like he knew what the answer was already, just looking for clues and stories that he could use,” Cotlar said.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Although the intact pot has not provided many direct clues about how it was used, its archaeological setting adds another piece to the larger history being reconstructed at the site.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
"We can meet in my room to talk about our cases. And we can put all of our clues in my desk drawer just like we did for this case!"
From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene
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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
But now they are now clued in to their fortuitous timing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
I skipped the steps of the application process that would have clued the agency in on my lack of fitness for the position.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
I think I’m pretty clued into my birds.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
Finally, some guy clued in and made a dive for the body on the floor.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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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
Dolores, cluing in the hosts to their own exploitation and lack of freedom, is both avatar of revenge and leader of the class struggle.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
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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