inkling
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Bobby had an inkling that disaster might strike and was well prepared.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 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
Those jobs gave him an inkling that computers would someday fit in our hands and pockets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
One began to get an inkling of what law was about only when the time came to practice it.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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Wonder
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