as in clue
a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)
there are indications that a medical breakthrough in the treatment of the disease is imminent
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Recent Examples of indication
Firstly, the cash cow – Keytruda – continued to gain market share with approval in more indications.
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Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Now, his town could give an indication of what the road to recovery may look like for those in the Los Angeles area joining the growing list of towns and cities devastated by wildfires.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
People’s minds hold things and form conclusions with indications.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
The Titans, who hold the top pick, aren’t going to build around Will Levis if this season was any indication.
—Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Now, his town could give an indication of what the road to recovery may look like for those in the Los Angeles area joining the growing list of towns and cities devastated by wildfires.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
People’s minds hold things and form conclusions with indications.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
The Titans, who hold the top pick, aren’t going to build around Will Levis if this season was any indication.
—Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indication
Noun
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This clue prompted me to find YouTube videos of people doing the [1960s dance craze] WATUSI.—
Elie Levine,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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The detailed aerial map offers some tantalizing clues about the ancient culture whose people built hundreds of similar fortresses in a mountainous region that spans the modern countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Yet there’s a hint that the family may know Sphere and the RSN aren’t good fits.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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So who knows if that’s just sister accounts interacting on social media or a hint to something larger coming down the pipeline in the hair category as well.—
Aamina Inayat Khan,
StyleCaster,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Feel free to send any tips, suggestions, story ideas and data to Ashley at [email protected].—
Annika Kim Constantino,Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2025
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At the time, most people in Greenland (and Denmark, the European country that controls it) thought his suggestion was a joke.—
Maya Tekeli,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Novel and ambitious experiments with primates, dolphins and parrots proliferated, many of them documenting animals following specific cues and using words and phrases to communicate with their human trainers.—
Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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At a precise cue — a sustained note — all the whales went silent and in unison lunged upward through the bait ball.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Various outfits, positioning themselves as neutral guides to the marketplace of ideas, now tout evaluations of news organizations’ trustworthiness, but relying on these requires trusting in the quality and objectivity of the evaluation.—
Fergus McIntosh,
The New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2025
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Having oil companies pick up the tab is an appealing idea.—
William Baldwin,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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“Indication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indication. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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