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The phrase "a hinting" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not typically used as "hinting" is usually a gerund or present participle and does not require an article like "a."
Example: "She gave a hinting look that suggested she wanted to leave."
Alternatives: "a suggestion" or "an indication".
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A hinting story, Swartwood explains, should do in twenty-five words what it could do in twenty-five hundred, that is, it "should be complete by standing by itself as its own little world".
A hinting story, Swartwood explains, should do in twenty-five words what it could do in twenty-five hundred, that is, it "should be complete by standing by itself as its own little world". And, like all good fiction, it should tell a story while gesturing toward all the unknowable spaces outside the text.
Similarly Mizrahi et al. [ 21] studied 17 drug-free patients who then received antipsychotic treatment for 6 weeks: the effect on psychotic symptoms and ToM, using a hinting task, was measured every 2 weeks.
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