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insinuate

[in-sin-yoo-eyt] / ɪnˈsɪn juˌeɪt /




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“I don’t want to insinuate that we’ve lost our values. The Big Ten has had to adjust to the overall shift in college athletics and the marketplace around it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

"I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that – and to insinuate that I did is disgusting," Platner said in a statement to the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

They will insinuate, if not outright say, they are more than a baseball team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025

The real purpose is to insinuate that this person doesn't deserve the basic presumption of privacy.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024

“How dare you insinuate that my mother is dead.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Sibarium insinuates that Lucero has exercised undue influence over residency acceptances.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

Harding insinuates himself into Adil’s life to get closer to Ruhaba, who seems to recognize Harding’s attraction to her while keeping him at a collegial distance.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

A small seating area has been colonized by Gillen’s prints and handmade artist books; a commanding aluminum triptych insinuates itself over the dining table.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

A morality play involving the clash of free-spirited bohemians and a religious conservative who insinuates himself among them, the work shed timely light on the relationship between brutal patriarchy and reproductive freedom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022

He insinuates himself under the collar, the wristband, and through the texture of the garments, and the whole region between the shirt and the skin is a field for his operations.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

Online creators have insinuated themselves into the D.C. press corps, sitting for briefings with Karoline Leavitt and securing Pentagon credentials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

"Constantly assuming new faces, it has insinuated itself into the heart of our societies, into every crack, too often accompanied by that same pact of cowardice: to keep silent, to refuse to see."

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Harabedian, in an interview, defended the proposed fee change and insinuated that Bach was influenced by the president of her board, who is a public adjuster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

Renaldo Gouws initially insinuated one of the videos was doctored and denied it but a statement issued by the DA on Thursday said it was "genuine and not a fake".

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024

He ran into the pack and insinuated himself onto the younger team.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Despite her efforts, Vicki's daughter struggled to gain weight and she felt like medical staff were insinuating she was "not doing enough" and "starving" her baby.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

Since the Epstein files release, Pozhidaeva has been contending with social-media posts and blogs insinuating she is a Russian spy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

He responded with, “There goes the house,” insinuating that he’s going to lose it.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025

This fits in with Kennedy's long-standing history of eugenics-tinged notions that disease is a good thing, falsely claiming that it strengthens the gene pool, and insinuating that it makes survivors stronger.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

His precise, insinuating delivery suggested horrors that Turner could not immediately grasp.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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