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Indicate

verb

(past & past part. indicated; pres. part. indicating)

Be a signal for or a symptom of. Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal. "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis" , "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"

Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively. Synonyms: designate, point, show. "He pointed to the empty parking space" , "He indicated his opponents"

To state or express briefly.

Give evidence of. Synonym: argue. "The results indicate the need for more work"

Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine. Synonym: suggest.

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... movement, to indicate that upon this subject he was as ignorant as the count himself. "Why does he not make use of his ...

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... interests and dividends upon the same capital being paid both to the bond- and stockholders of the Pennsylvania Central and to the bond-and stockholders of the roads in whose securities it has made investments. The income of the company is thus swelled far beyond the amount which the traffic reports indicate. It will be seen that, to perpetuate extortionate rates, this process of manifolding securities ...

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... stood for the Greek Empire, that like this metal is of inferior quality, its rule also was less significant than that of its predecessors in the sovereignty over the world; the ram's skins dyed red indicate the sovereignty of "red Rome." God now said to Israel: "Although you now behold the four nations that will hold sway over you, still shall I send you help out of your bondage, 'oil for the light,' the Messiah, who will enlighten ...

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... and his family life a century and over ago I know little beyond what is implied in some of his books that have come down to me—the Letters of Junius, a biography of John Paul Jones, Chief Justice Marshall's "Life of Washington." They seem to indicate that his library was less interesting than that of my wife's great-grandfather at the same time, which certainly included such volumes as the original Edinburgh Review, for we have them now on our own book-shelves. Of my grandfather Roosevelt my most vivid childish ...

— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

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