suggestive
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For example, errors in memory or suggestive questioning during eyewitness interviews can influence how events are remembered.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026
“The latest result was a notable outlier suggestive of random upside volatility,” said Larry Werther, Chief U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
"I'm going to be honest, the next day I woke up very stiff, you know, and that's very suggestive of that force, that whiplash kind of force."
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
“Core goods prices may be slightly stronger, but we do not expect much abnormal strength that would be suggestive of substantial tariff pass through.”
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
In the bottom-left-hand corner of Apian’s diagram he has drawn some mountains, suggestive of a real place, perhaps even a reference to the Alps.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
