insinuate
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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
The real purpose is to insinuate that this person doesn't deserve the basic presumption of privacy.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
“You’re not gonna try to come to social media and put her on blast, and insinuate or put out something making it seem like she was doing something she wasn’t doing,” she continued.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2024
The term had long been used in Haitian street slang to insinuate male dominance and power.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
And bouncing on her flat heels, full of coffee and nerve and code, was Eva Seiler, Berlin’s interpretive liaison with London, soon to insinuate herself into the German-speaking underworld of Ormaie.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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