hint (at)

verb

Definition of hint (at)next
as in to indicate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hint (at)
  1. indicate
  2. suggest
  3. imply
  4. notice
  5. mention
  6. intend
  7. specify
  8. instance
Verb
  • The updating radar map above shows areas of precipitation in green, with greater intensities indicated by yellow and orange.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Data delayed 15 minutes unless otherwise indicated (view delay times for all exchanges).
    Quartz, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
Definition of indicate
Verb
  • Netanyahu’s lack of strategic vision to accomplish this task, however, suggests that Israel will be prosecuting an ongoing war that has alienated many potential U.S. partners in the world.
    Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The abuse victims’ attorneys, however, suggested that not funding the trust immediately would short-change people who had already been victimized by the church, given how the value of that trust could erode with time and inflation.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
Definition of suggest
Verb
  • The merger implies a current equity value of Huture at $1.0 billion prior to closing.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • That implies that just as federalism guards against the tyranny made possible through overt centralization, federalism also has counterweights to prevent individual state governments from wrecking the whole.
    Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of imply
Verb
  • Diners will soon notice new lighting at the restaurants and new music as part of Adamolekun’s efforts to attract younger customers who might have grown up going to the chain but haven’t been back for some time.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Some Mail users may notice that the change has already been implemented, and clicking on Mail will open the new Outlook app instead.
    Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
Definition of notice
Verb
  • Denver was fending for the first time this season without Nikola Jokic, who didn’t travel with the team due to personal reasons, not to mention Aaron Gordon dealing with a calf strain and coach Michael Malone playing hooky.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
  • While White’s production needs to sharpen its pace and tempo a tad, there’s no denying the depth and urgency of the play’s themes, not to mention the wry pleasures of the text, Bioh’s rich gift for the idiosyncrasies of language and dialect, the rollicking musicality of speech.
    Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of mention
Verb
  • Her kids are also receiving a more significant portion of the estate than was intended.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Given the laptop-class CPU and GPU, only the RAM and storage are intended to be readily user-accessible—the chips are locked down and facing toward the cooling system that occupies the other half of the case.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of intend
Verb
  • Apple specifies that this release is about security though there will be bugs being squished as well.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • However, the application did not specify where filming would take place in the Queen City.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of specify
Verb
  • Topics under discussion included changes in the industry over the last decade, instanced by the rise of digital and gaming, audience fragmentation, and the emergence of disruptive technologies such as AI.
    Liza Foreman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s been plenty of room for errors and hallucinations, instances when chatbots like ChatGPT have concocted inaccurate—and sometimes worrying—answers to questions.
    Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
Definition of instance
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