as in fundamentally
by natural character or ability
the judge's observation that women are not inherently better at parenting than men
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Recent Examples of inherently
But why are those shows, at their best, inherently superior to Love on the Spectrum or Shark Tank or Deadliest Catch?
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 May 2026
From the review, city leaders concluded the park setting is inherently dangerous for the birds and the close quarters allow disease to spread.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Advertisement In this way, bands are inherently anarchical.
—Katie Gavin, Time, 8 May 2026
There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Luminous yet lethal, Rudolph carries herself with enough conviction to make the reluctant royal daughter of the barbaric Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) feel inherently consequential.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
Overall, beer isn't inherently worse than other types of alcohol.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 5 May 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
Mass transit inherently defies city boundaries.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 May 2026
From the review, city leaders concluded the park setting is inherently dangerous for the birds and the close quarters allow disease to spread.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
Advertisement In this way, bands are inherently anarchical.
—Katie Gavin, Time, 8 May 2026
There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Luminous yet lethal, Rudolph carries herself with enough conviction to make the reluctant royal daughter of the barbaric Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) feel inherently consequential.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 May 2026
Overall, beer isn't inherently worse than other types of alcohol.
—Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 5 May 2026
Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
Mass transit inherently defies city boundaries.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inherently
Adverb
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As the leader of the minority party in the House of Representatives, a fundamentally majoritarian institution, Jeffries has little ability to get anything done.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Warsh has been critical of the decision-making of the Fed under Powell’s leadership, and argues for a fundamentally more dovish policy stance while his predecessor has favored a wait-and-see approach.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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That pursuit has naturally made Copenhagen an endless source of inspiration for me.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 May 2026
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Soaking sunflower seeds before planting can help with germination as this method softens the naturally hard outer layer of the seed.—
Alexandra Jones,
The Spruce,
11 May 2026
Adverb
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For all practical purposes, these intrinsically hard-to-prove statements are just as unknowable as the unprovable statements that Gödel identified.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
11 May 2026
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Light and Los Angeles are intrinsically linked.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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Coach Sean McVay basically lives in 11 personnel, with one running back, one tight end and three wide receivers.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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Look no further than the near-certain demise—even under best-case warming scenarios—of basically all of the world’s warm-water coral reefs and their various colorful fish.—
John Reid,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Adverb
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Multiple scans of the Neanderthal tooth, as well as experiments using tools on modern human teeth, suggest that someone had essentially drilled out the cavity.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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The orders, issued by the agency’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Space Bureau, aren’t surprising given that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr essentially forced EchoStar to sell the licenses.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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“Inherently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inherently. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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