Hints
Principles and hints are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Principles" instead a noun "Hints".
Principles
Principles noun - General or basic truths on which other truths or theories can be based.
Hints and principles are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hints" instead a noun "Principles".
Both words in one sentence
- His day in the limelight, the X-Wing Series, showed some promising hints of interpersonal savvy, tactical insight, and further loyalty to principles rather than organization.
Source: Good Is Not Dumb - However, his deductive reasoning and scientific knowledge are dangerously functional, his ability to predict the outcome of situations is often only foiled by abstract principles, and he even drops hints of understanding that the universe he lives in is fictional.
Source: Only Sane Man / Comic Books
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