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the inkling
noun
A slight suspicion or hint.
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I ignore the inkling that I have "underperformed".
You may think you don't care about such things, but the inkling burrows like a tapeworm.
They were quiet for long enough to suggest the inkling of comfort.
But if you get the inkling that they might be, here's a trick: ask them.
That might not seem like a lot, but it looked like the inkling of a trend.
From that awakening, they say, has come the inkling of a new movement.
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(They called themselves the Inklings).
He was one of the Inklings, a group that included Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
It has an English pub interior and is where the Inklings, the drinking club they belonged to, used to meet.
I ask him why he dislikes Tolkien and the Inklings so much.
Tolkien and Lewis were members of The Inklings group of Oxford authors and academics.
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