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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hinting (at)
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The investment bank has a buy rating on Ralph Lauren with a $425 price target, indicating a potential 20% gain from Friday’s close.—
Davis Giangiulio,Christopher Hayes,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026 -
One commercial building — without any signage indicating hospice services were located inside — received state licenses for 112 hospices.—
William La Jeunesse,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Suski and others signed a letter suggesting that cases like Charley's should be judged individually, rather than thrown into a common bin.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Feb. 2026
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Melania is also opening overseas in 20 countries, but so the filmmakers and Amazon aren’t reporting grosses, suggesting a soft showing at best.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Feb. 2026
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Soon however, surveillance images of US cities appear on-screen (recognizable in part by storefront signs for brands like Marshalls, M&M’s World, and Coca-Cola), implying that the audience, too, could become components of images to be segmented, categorized, and fed into AI training datasets.—
Farren Fei Yuan,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Citi also maintained its price target of $650, implying nearly 29% upside for Spotify from Thursday's close.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Hinting (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinting%20%28at%29. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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