"initial hint" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the first clue or suggestion that someone receives or gives about a topic or situation. Example: During the job interview, the interviewer gave me an initial hint about the company's dress code by mentioning their casual work culture.
Like many literary novels, Flaubert's Parrot provides the reader with an initial hint as to its purposes.
The initial hint was co-purification of a cAMP-dependent kinase activity with the proteasome complex from bovine pituitaries.
The initial hint that the association between the two concepts may be a candidate for a hypothesis appears in the case when there is no connection (co-occurrence in the same PubMed entry) of the concepts found in the analyzed set of PubMed entries.
The initial hint that this daft blather was bordering on pure nuttiness comes from the fact that Joy and Kurzweil talked about these issues at some hotel bar where guys like this gather after attending various group-think functions and conferences.
The initial hint that Vpr interacts with proteasomes came from our search in fission yeast for multicopy suppressors of Vpr localization on nuclear membrane, an indication of the nuclear transport capacity of Vpr [28].
In conclusion, our findings are an initial hint that work-family conflicts might be a risk factor for poor work ability in female patients with musculoskeletal disorders.
There were initial hints of the flat singing that used to plague her, a faint trace of a wobble in one passage; but over all her vocal performance was magnificent: firm and exciting.
However, "despite initial hints about the integration of [scientists on] RyC contracts" within their host institution in the medium and long-term, "reality is different," the report warned.
After spotting initial hints of magnetic behavior, Rode teamed up with magnetic specialists led by John Giapintzakis at the University of Crete in Greece.
The CIA offered some initial hints about the Panetta Review in the court document it filed in response to the FOIA request for the document.
We use a number of mental shortcuts to rapidly turn a few initial hints into our snap judgments about whether something feels risky.
