Hint and Way

Hint

Hint noun - A slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation).

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Way and hint are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Way" instead a noun "Hint".

Nearby Words: hinted, hinting

Way noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Hint and way are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hint" instead a noun "Way".

good	good hint	good way
nice	nice hint	nice way
clear	clear hint	clear way
best	best hint	best way
Other adjectives: long, better, common, obvious, real, big, great, subtle, main, interesting, major, possible.

Although it's averted by the bittersweet hint that it won't be this way when they grow up.

Source: Literature / Something Wicked This Way Comes
Yet when they're all stuck in the Tower of London together, he reacts in a very similar eccentric and bickering way to the others to their predicament; the first hint that he is still the Doctor.

Source: Recap / Doctor Who 50th AS "The Day of the Doctor"
Stephen painstakingly recalls how he repeatedly made "casual" mentions to each suggestion that Lequint Dickey Mining Company slaves have it way worse than any of that, before anyone took the hint.

Source: Hint Dropping

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