clue
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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
But it's too early to judge the Williams upgrades - and Aston Martin provides a clue as to why.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The investigation also produced an unexpected clue involving the kidneys.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
More money than they ever imagined—and no clue how to spend it: Share sales at OpenAI and Anthropic minted hundreds of millionaires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
She didn't have a clue how she'd get her light inside this amazing object, but she was excited to try.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
In another two decades, we could all be looking back at 2026 for clues.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
The U.S. nonfarm payrolls report at 1230 GMT will be closely monitored for clues on future policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It left Kevin poring over clues for who might be responsible.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
But there are also haunting clues that the catatonic wife down the hall isn’t as helpless as she looks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She wished she could gather her Clue Crew around her and get back to work: searching for clues, interviewing witnesses, anything.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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
Investors in GameStop may have clued in to the financing arrangements of the deal, which could dilute shareholders.
From Barron's ● May 4, 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
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
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
And by gesturing broadly toward Jim’s painful past without fully cluing us in, the movie provides only the barest justification for his descent into vigilantism.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
He was a constant presence in the film room, cluing in the young players on tendencies of that veteran opposing coaches like Doc Rivers and Gregg Popovich.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2019
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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