The phrase "almost imply" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting that something is not directly stated but is suggested or hinted at to a significant degree.
Example: "The author's tone in the novel almost implies a sense of nostalgia for the past."
Alternatives: "suggests" or "hints at".
Thus, if the social discount factor is almost zero, then the optimal progressivity level will almost imply complete income redistribution with a welfare gain equivalent to a 62.45 % increment in lifetime consumption and a negligible (close to zero) annual growth rate of per capita GDP.
We know you fiscal conservatives are a patriotic bunch -- to the point where you almost imply at times that the rest of us are unpatriotic, but I am willing to overlook that in a spirit of cooperation.
"It almost implies that they're not doing it again because last year it didn't work," he said.
The use of inverted commas around the phrase "foetal alcohol syndrome" almost implies Simon Jenkins is sceptical about this condition, perhaps implying an invention of fee-hungry lawyers?
While he does not say so, he almost implies that current account imbalances are always the result of exchange rate misalignments.
The creators of "Watchmen" might say that they gave up on its movie prospects, "but that almost implies that we actually wanted it to be a movie," Mr. Gibbons, the illustrator, said.
"Well, the actual import of that question is important to me, because if I'm going to demonstrate that the cinema is not the best place to tell narratives, then to tell you thousands of narratives almost implies that.
In recent years Putin has misappropriated the term "Russian world" (russkiy mir) and made it a political slogan that almost implies "if you speak Russian you belong in Russia".
Indeed, he almost implies that the money men are the screening process that allows only good candidates into the race.All the same, the tone of his book is as damning as any John McCain speech.
Noel Gallagher is the film's executive producer, and it should probably be entitled Oasis: The Golden Years, because it ends with the band's colossal concert at Knebworth in 1996, almost implying they went up in a blaze of glory after that.
But there is of course no peer-reviewed literature on the thermonuclear implications of a miraculous resurrection.Hence, perhaps, the cautious but far from anodyne words of the new pontiff, who draws some unexpected conclusions from the Shroud, almost implying that it does not make any difference whose visage appears on the cloth.
