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something tells me

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  1. I suspect, I have an intuition, as in Something tells me that she's not really as ill as she says, or Something told him that it was going to snow.


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But something tells me our battered mood will see a winner in something like gifted ironist Nicolas Keppens’ “Beautiful Men,” a quirky tale of three balding Flemish brothers visiting foggy Istanbul for hair transplants.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

And something tells me there will be more airline mergers in 2024, if not in the United States then abroad.

From Seattle Times Jan. 8, 2024

After having a conversation with him, I was like, “This is my teammate right here, somebody that I could push, and something tells me he’s going to push me, too.”

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2023

Castor said that “we need a comprehensive online privacy bill as well, but something tells me that may be a little more difficult to hammer out in the coming months.”

From Washington Post Mar. 2, 2022

I hope the messages are good, I think, but something tells me this won’t be easy There must be good reason these three were left till last.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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