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hinted

  • past participle of hint.
  • past tense form of hint.

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Hinted at in increasing intensity over the last year until bubbling over in the last few weeks, it became official today: Golf’s ruling bodies are officially concerned about driving distance.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 5, 2018

Hinted that the parity price program is obsolete�"at its best it treats the symptoms and not the cause"�but postponed discussion of the problem of parity "since it is now before the Congress."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hinted, also, were Tulane's fears that Jack's sister might change her mind at the last moment or that there might be legal complications about getting a body across the Alabama-Louisiana State line for anatomical study.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hinted the War Office: the practice will not be encouraged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hinted at the gravity of the so-called “trauma of decanting,” and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley