clue
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But if there is one clue that begins to illuminate the greatest mystery of the 2026 baseball season, it’s in Skenes’s velocity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Dr. Broatch said the connection between exercise and brain protection could provide an important clue as scientists search for evidence-based forms of physical activity that may help limit brain deterioration with age.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
One possible clue to women's slightly higher long-term returns lies in how often they buy and sell their investments, with Barclays data showing that women trade around half as frequently as men.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
One clue: The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits at the end of July fell to an unadjusted 175,000 — one of the lowest levels in 60 years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
“So far, we have not the slightest clue as to the perpetrator of the crime.”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Stock futures were mostly higher as investors looked ahead to Fed minutes on Wednesday, and clues on U.S. consumer sentiment from Walmart and Home Depot earnings due this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
For the researcher Altin, there are clues in Homer's writing that he says shows the poet came from the area.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Astrophysicists in India now say the latest findings from Aditya-L1, the country's first solar observation mission in space, have provided them some vital clues to unlocking those mysteries.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Traders now await upcoming PPI data for further clues on the rate outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“You have the clues, Nell,” she said with an encouraging nod.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
No one clued in Dale about this, or anybody else, for that matter.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But now they are now clued in to their fortuitous timing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Smartly, Liang is clued into the fact that Chloe is at most her destructive when she’s putting on a show of being confident and happy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
“He’s known that you were clued in from the start, because I told him about our conversations,” Coach says.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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
“I am also a man of two minds,” he continues, cluing us in to the truth that every immigrant sometimes feels like a double agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 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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