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After watching events in Washington over the past week, I have an inkling of how Mr. Stengel felt—dismay and sheer wonder at the team’s incompetence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
“If you have pretty good inkling what you want to do,” Maslin urged, “vote.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
“I had no inkling that it was Janie, none, even though she had told me weeks later, that she did it and blah, blah, blah,” Ortiz told me.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Beijing got an inkling that Trump thought more transactionally about Taiwan than his predecessors in 2017, during his first state visit to China.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Even when we have an inkling that we are speaking in a specialized lingo, we may be reluctant to slip back into plain speech.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing inkling
Wonder
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Flowers for Algernon
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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