This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (39 Down). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Wednesday sits mid-week in difficulty, with more wordplay than Monday or Tuesday.
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Answer length: 3 squares
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HMM as a word: (intransitive) To make a thoughtful humming noise; (computer science) Initialism of hidden Markov model. [A statistical Markov model in which the system being modelled is assumed to be a Markov process with u....
HMM has been an answer once in the NYT Crossword and Mini puzzles we have on file, which go back to October 23, 2025.
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