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  • noun Plural form of hint.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hint.

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Examples

  • Your Love Is Calling My Name hints at rockabilly, with Adam Granduciel muttering about freeways and harbours, yet the unrelenting drum pattern, the swirling synths, the shimmers of guitar somehow remove it from the US rock tradition even as it fights to return home.

    The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient – review 2011

  • AFP/Getty Images Dutch author Harry Mulisch The title hints at the vast chronolo gy of this novel, as do the first words of its unforgettable opening "Many years later, as he stood facing the firing squad . . ."

    Novels of Time and Memory Edmund Morris 2010

  • Plus the title hints at a counterimperialist surge over the Southern border, which is awesome.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010

  • She does a good deal of that in the patter -- much of which is devoted to pointing out, as her title hints, the pluses and minuses of time's passage.

    David Finkle: The Real Tyne Daly Stands Up at Manhattan's Feinstein's at Loews Regency 2010

  • Jane, as the title hints, is Bronte's secret double, not the chillier, appropriately-named Lucy Snowe, just as Jane's romance plot supposedly acts out Bronte's secret fantasies in a way that Lucy's broken, ambivalent end does not.

    Becoming Jane Eyre 2010

  • Jane, as the title hints, is Bronte's secret double, not the chillier, appropriately-named Lucy Snowe, just as Jane's romance plot supposedly acts out Bronte's secret fantasies in a way that Lucy's broken, ambivalent end does not.

    The Little Professor: 2010

  • The title hints at all the things this book is and means and accomplishes.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The title hints at all the things this book is and means and accomplishes.

    New in Paperback: Farewell, My Subaru 2009

  • The title hints at full-on funk, but it's mostly midtempo mush.

    Critical Moment: Reviews 2008

  • As the title hints, the books revolve around - once again - the return of an ancient evil to a world that no longer believes in it.

    Wertzone Classics: The Prince of Nothing Trilogy by R. Scott Bakker Adam Whitehead 2007

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