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"Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn between 2004 and 2017, showed no inkling of a long-lived formation, either. The Hubble data confirmed the feature's presence back to 2023."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

That’s how science works: You come up with a good idea backed by some inklings of evidence, you gather more information, and you often learn you were wrong.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

“Family Remix” captures that process in the docuseries, starting from his first inklings of wanting to chronicle each step through his first-person account in People magazine.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

Those were like little inklings of the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

This New-England-like region gives first inklings of that hygge feeling — the Danish word for quiet winter comfort.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

The hall was left completely in darkness save for some inklings of dawn at the smashed door and where the windows were.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye