inkling
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“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
Clinton said that he would have cut off ties to Epstein and never would have flown on his plane if he "had any inkling of what he was doing".
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
But he’d never had any inkling of what he now sensed lay beyond that tantalizing door.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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