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verb

past tense of insinuate
1
as in infiltrated
to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way years were needed for the agent to insinuate himself into the terrorist organization

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2
as in implied
to convey an idea indirectly are you insinuating that I won by cheating?

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3
as in inserted
to put among or between others quietly insinuated herself among the concertgoers raptly listening to the piano solo

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Recent Examples of insinuated
Verb
Hoffenberg has insinuated that fellow Democrat Chris Getty, the Lyons Township supervisor, improperly accessed the video and had a hand in leaking information about the footage to Gorman. — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Sprague insinuated that Clancy may have crushed up drugs earlier in the day or days before, but Reddington objected, and the judge agreed with him. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 26 Aug. 2026 But that has yet to happen because, as Vrabel insinuated, the team does not want to stunt his development at tackle. — Chad Graff, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026 Hawaiian Airlines first insinuated that my credit card was declined. — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 29 June 2026 Beginning with the Beat Generation, slowly and gently, like pot smoke seeping from a college dorm room, America’s counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s insinuated itself in unlikely places with unexpected results. — Lewis Jacobsen, Air Mail, 23 May 2026 But Finch insinuated that’s also a team issue. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026 Initially, the white Democrats who ruled the South responded to the rise of Black political power by crafting racist narratives that insinuated that the emergence of Black voters and Black officeholders was a corruption of the proper political order. — Robert D. Bland, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026 This is because the girls are both insinuated to be June’s daughters. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insinuated
  1. suggested
  2. infiltrated
  3. implied
  4. inserted
  5. sneaked
  6. indicated
  7. introduced
  8. slipped
Adjective
  • Owners should check the calorie information on the food label rather than relying solely on the suggested serving size, which may be too generous.
    — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Among suggested changes are expanding voting rights and ending ICE detentions and deportations.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of suggested
Verb
  • Texans have always seemed to relish their otherness, maybe even more so now that, in our age of globalization, so much sameness has infiltrated most American and international cities.
    — Christine Lennon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Musk’s officials infiltrated department after department, canceling contracts, firing employees, viewing sensitive data, and kneecapping programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as foreign aid.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of infiltrated
Verb
  • Organic cotton needs to be named, not just implied, in the frameworks that will direct investment over the next decade.
    — Bart Vollaard, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • While stocks slipped midday as shares of Nvidia unwound some of its big earnings gains, the S&P was down three-tenths of a percent, about half the roughly 60 basis-point range options pricing had implied for Friday's session.
    — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of implied
Verb
  • Those margins raise the prospect that similar language could be inserted into any further budget deals without triggering opposition.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
  • In Tokyo, sandwiches are advertised with an image in which the bagel seems to be made of cobwebs and contains a tuna salad that appears to have been inserted via a piping bag.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of inserted
Verb
  • The couple snuck off the next weekend and got married on May 30, 1966 at the Ringgold Baptist Church in Ringgold, Ga.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • While Bad Sisters snuck a nuanced portrait of sisterhood into a frantic whodunit, Youth lets its characters steep in the weirdness of ordinary life.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of sneaked
Verb
  • While earlier forecasts from the hurricane center indicated that Edouard could become a hurricane, the storm ran out of time over the Gulf.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh indicated last week that the central bank is uncomfortable with the current rate of inflation, remarks investors interpreted to mean the Fed is likely to raise its key interest rate in response.
    — Rob Wile, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of indicated
Verb
  • That change was introduced to help give club staff working across transfer departments a more normal working pattern.
    — Leon Imber, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Selective repression had already been introduced before 2022 with the imprisonment of a number of governors, ministers, and high-ranking civil servants on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of introduced
Verb
  • Zscaler — The cloud security company's stock slipped nearly 2% despite its earnings beat.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The Office Romance star slipped on a stack of Fope’s gold mesh bracelets, topping off her ensemble with a Chanel handbag and Cartier earrings from the jeweler’s signature Panthère collection.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of slipped

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“Insinuated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insinuated. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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