Clews
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Examples
- He is not an inventor as much as he is a detective; he picks up the clews to certain happenings and constructs a working theory to fit them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Brooke, meanwhile, having lost other clews, fell back on himself and his qualifications--always an appropriate graceful subject for a candidate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Melba