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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
insinuate .
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Examples
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From its Jacobean beginnings, the word insinuated the possibility of excess, however.
PTBC J-Log 2010
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"He kind of insinuated the group over there wasn't as talented," Shanahan says.
Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins 2010
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It's not that the monster was "insinuated" in the CIA; it's that the CIA was created by Congress & the Truman administration to protect the interests of US capitalism, by going around the world destroying all & any attempts of other nations to develop economically in ways that were independent of the US, & thus "threats" to US corporations 'global dominance.
Disaster Capitalism and its Shock Doctrine-- making Nazism seem tame 2007
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I said "insinuated" because I couldn't understand it, but I would have viewed it as a threat myself.
"I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that." Ann Althouse 2007
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As to the "insinuated" threat, that's in the comments, and I think it's absolutely fair.
"I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that." Ann Althouse 2007
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It's not that the monster was "insinuated" in the CIA; it's that the CIA was created by Congress & the Truman administration to protect the interests of US capitalism, by going around the world destroying all & any attempts of other nations to develop economically in ways that were independent of the US, & thus "threats" to US corporations 'global dominance.
Disaster Capitalism and its Shock Doctrine-- making Nazism seem tame 2007
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I said "insinuated" because I couldn't understand it, but I would have viewed it as a threat myself.
"I don't like to call the police or call his boss. . . . I'm a libertarian. I'm not into that." Ann Althouse 2007
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Among the Grecians (according to Potter) "They who forced themselves into other men's entertainments, were called _flies_, which was a general name of reproach for such as insinuated themselves into any company where they were not welcome."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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Then he kind of insinuated that I ought to do something about it myself.
Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903
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If you read between the lines, though, it sounds like Sully contacted the building's owner and "insinuated" he can obtain a favorable SLA decision, but ONLY if the owner ends the lease with Club 35.
The OBSERVER 2009
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