The study found a statistically significant correlation, but not evidence of causation.
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correlation, but not evidence of causationthe two things move together, but the study has not shown that one directly causes the other.
The semantic layer for focused reading.
Read without breaking flow.
MicroHint helps you understand unfamiliar words, phrases, and concepts in place — across the web, PDFs, and EPUBs.
Curiosity shouldn’t send you down a search rabbit hole.
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Where reading usually breaks
Reading shouldn’t become a tab-management exercise.
You see a term.
You open a search.
You skim a new page.
You lose your place.
MicroHint keeps understanding inside the reading surface.
Where MicroHint helps
Understand in place — across what you actually read
Short reading moments from research articles, legal PDFs, finance pages, and books — each with an immediate cognitive unblock.
The court distinguished the precedent because the ratio decidendi did not apply to the facts before it.
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ratio decidendithe core legal reasoning behind a judgment — the part that becomes binding for future cases.
The valuation depends heavily on discounted cash flow assumptions over the next five years.
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discounted cash flowa method of estimating value by translating future expected cash into what it is worth today.
She felt the powerful allure of acquiescence, even as she knew it would cost her.
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allure of acquiescencethe tempting pull of giving in, especially when resistance feels emotionally costly.
Understand in place
Curiosity without detours
Immediate cognitive unblock — no tab switching, no context switching. Stay inside the page while you read.
Select text
Highlight what you don’t know — on a webpage, in a PDF, or inside an EPUB. Nothing leaves until you ask.
Get a MicroHint
A concise explanation appears beside your selection — a semantic layer for the web that reduces the friction of learning something.
Go deeper in flow
More Context when you want depth. Nested explanations when one term leads to another — still on the same page.
Works where you read
A semantic layer across formats
The same calm popup whether you’re in a browser tab, a PDF reader, or an EPUB.
Web pages
Articles, documentation, essays — understand in place without opening new tabs.
PDFs
Papers and reports — read without breaking flow when terminology gets dense.
EPUBs
Books and long-form reading — curiosity without detours, chapter after chapter.
From quick meaning to deeper context
The popup you already know
Select a phrase. Get meaning immediately. Expand with More Context when the passage deserves it — all without leaving the reading surface.
What stays with you
What you understand can stay with you.
Save useful explanations, return to highlighted concepts, and keep reading without turning MicroHint into another workspace.
Save explanations
Keep useful explanations without leaving the page.
Highlighted concepts
Previously explained ideas can reappear where you read.
Across surfaces
Web pages, PDFs, and EPUBs share the same reading-first interaction.
How curiosity unfolds
Built for the way curiosity actually happens.
MicroHint is designed around reading flow — not around collecting, chatting, or managing information.
Privacy
Built for trust
MicroHint only explains text you choose. It does not collect full page contents, browsing history, or personal documents. Read our privacy policy.