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- noun Agent noun of
hint ; someone whohints .
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Examples
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People who lived in hinter-coastal communities in those early times, as well as in recent centuries, have long lived with an awareness that their communities form part of a large global network.
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Then in hinter-China there are depopulated districts that, with a little help from skillful white men, could be turned into splendid areas for farming, into which millions of Chinese could move out of the congested parts.
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24 One distinction among them, however, is that Kwale ware has had a much wider known distribution in hinter-coastal zones than either Urewe or Lelesu ware.
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Behind this dignitary sat his sons, and their wives, and his daughters and their husbands, and their children, and so on, back to the Brandeis pew, third from the last, behind which sat only a few obscure families branded as Russians, as only the German-born Jew can brand those whose misfortune it is to be born in that region known as hinter-Berlin.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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Behind this dignitary sat his sons, and their wives, and his daughters and their husbands, and their children, and so on, back to the Brandeis pew, third from the last, behind which sat only a few obscure families branded as Russians, as only the German-born Jew can brand those whose misfortune it is to be born in that region known as hinter-Berlin.
Fanny Herself 1917
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Thanks for the hinter, I am enjoying it very much.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Fans of Spinal Tap, you’ve been notified! 2009
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Gut, außer den Wandlern selber und natürlich denen, die hinter ihnen her sind.
Guest Author: Michelle Raven Nalini Singh 2009
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This means, in order to return to a viable stone age, hinter gatherer population in Zimababwe, we would need to murder 99.8% of its population.
Capitalism as a Benevolent System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The first of these establishes the ethno-linguistic composition of local populations and the establishment of the transoceanic economic enterprises along central-east Tanzania's hinter-coastland up to about 500 CE.
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As a source of historical power in the face of developing Swahili culture and entrenchment in this hinter-coastal zone, might it be that women were laying claim to their power as food producers?
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