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- verb Present participle of
intimate .
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Examples
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De Mores finally wrote a threatening letter to Roosevelt, using a phrase intimating that he would like to fight a duel.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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In written testimony to the Senate last week, Timothy Geithner invoked the dreaded "currency manipulator" label intimating that China is deliberately undervaluing the yuan.
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I think she thought me the maddest of sane men; "clever," in fact, which at Smithie's was, I suppose, the next thing to insanity, a word intimating incomprehensible and incalculable motives ....
Tono Bungay 1906
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But in intimating it, there seems a contrast tacitly made between him and his prophetic predecessor, who did not die.
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In written testimony to the Senate on Jan. 22, Timothy Geithner invoked the dreaded "currency manipulator" label intimating that China is deliberately undervaluing its currency, the yuan.
unknown title 2009
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For the sacred text does not contain any term intimating the non-intelligent pradhâna, on the ground of which we might understand the latter to be the general cause or abode; while such terms as 'he who perceives all and knows all' (Mu.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
An Address 2006
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He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
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-- The last two adhikara/n/as finally refer, according to Râmânuja, to one Chândogya passage only, and here also we have to notice that Sûtra 42 does not comprise any word intimating that a new passage is about to be discussed.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
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