as in innuendo
a slyly or subtly derogatory remark the insinuation that there were considerations other than love for the actor having such a high-profile wedding

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Recent Examples of insinuation Throughout the interview, Ye made provocative insinuations about Jews and money and went on unprovoked tangents. Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025 But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations. The Editors, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025 And, sure, Jacob’s not around anymore, but that doesn’t make Dellinger’s insinuations that white attackers, real white attackers the same shade as Wolsey, any less offensive. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025 Goodell was asked about the theory of NFL officiating, which stems from the insinuation that the Chiefs are on the receiving end of favorable calls during games. Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for insinuation
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Noun
  • There are still rooms and contexts in which Germans — and now the head coach of the English national football team — are subject to infantile innuendo.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But that hasn’t stopped the finger-pointing, the blame games, the innuendo.
    Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • By reducing noise and missing values, AI simplifies data imputation, categorization and clustering, improving data accessibility.
    Sandeep Shilawat, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Multiple imputation became the go-to technique in medicine.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The biggest risk with AI is trust: The capability to understand the content or suggestions that AI provides, as well as its decision process.
    Agur Jõgi, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Any suggestions besides just avoiding her? — Frustrated Daughter-in-law Dear Frustrated: Call her on it.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Insinuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insinuation. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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