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- noun Plural form of
inkling .
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Examples
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He was more than content with what he called a "cosmic religious sense" -- animated by "inklings" and "wondering," rather than by answers and conclusions.
Krista Tippett: Albert Einstein's Faith: Was the Great Physicist Spiritual? 2010
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But he did profess a "cosmic religious sense" driven by "inklings" and "wonderings" rather than answers and certainties.
Krista Tippett: Religion and Science: Finding Their Kindred Spirits Krista Tippett 2010
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He was more than content with what he called a "cosmic religious sense" -- animated by "inklings" and "wondering," rather than by answers and conclusions.
Krista Tippett: Albert Einstein's Faith: Was the Great Physicist Spiritual? 2010
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And even though Nick Nefedro, who brought the case against the Montgomery statute, believes that he has "inklings" about things to come, legal precedent varies as to whether such a belief allows him to withstand the law.
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The "inklings" turned into a "stream" however, when we made the turn-off for our first stop, the Fish River Canyon.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Yet, while the island's CID chief, former Scotland Yard detective Les Green, concedes that there are 'inklings' that Mr Terry was bisexual, and knew his killer, he insists that the motive is by no means clear-cut.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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hi. i work in inklings bookshop in yakima, susan is my mother. i was google-snooping 'inklings' and 'yakima' and i found your blog. i can't find what you wrote about inklings, though, can you tell me if you remember where it is in your archives?
Chronicle: Book Nerd Among Comics Geeks Book Nerd 2007
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Tongue out to taste the cold falling fl akes I got the fi rst inklings of the weight the world might put on me for the time I had left, the mass of its detail, its relentless plotless insistence.
'The Last Werewolf' 2011
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Though similar to her previous inklings regarding her presidential ambitions, Palin's latest answer seems significantly less enthusiastic.
Sarah Palin: I'll Run For President 'If There's Nobody Else To Do It' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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There's some kind of error in the wireless, and we only had the first inklings of tracking it down, but not what to do about it yet.
LXG88 archmage 2010
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