Word: hint
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Better aim your grocery cart toward the fruit aisle. Studies in animals hint that berries are bursting with benefits. For one thing, they are chock-full of antioxidants, which help absorb some of the toxic molecules called free radicals that the body produces during metabolism. Cranberries may pack a one-two punch. They seem to boost levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which soaks up artery-clogging fat. They may also reduce the amount of damage to the brain that occurs after a stroke. Blueberries appear to lower the risk of heart disease by keeping arteries elastic...
...hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile...
...been down that road before. But this time Abizaid was virtually certain, and Rumsfeld rang off to telephone the President with the news. Rumsfeld's late-afternoon schedule was scrubbed, a hoped-for game of squash canceled. At a holiday party that night at his home, he gave no hint that he had the ace in the hole...
...splurged on a dream apartment in Queens. If you are unfamiliar with the social inferences of New York City geography, a celebrity buying a dream home in Queens is like an heiress shopping for a necklace at Zales. "It's a cool part of Queens," Keys says without a hint of defensiveness. "There's a mall really close by. A good mall...
...doesn’t have the requisite number of child bullies, and the administrators want to meet the quota. Or maybe administrators equally punish students who say things like “school desk” or even “ignorant educators who falsely claim to have one hint of common sense...