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 Synonyms for inherently
Adverb
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Their emergence represents just one facet of a fundamentally changing career landscape.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025 -
The key distinction in astrophysical environments is the presence of magnetic fields, which fundamentally alter the nature of turbulent flows.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
19 May 2025
Adverb
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Dancing naturally follows suit, some of it connected to rituals, including those held after a full moon, which is thought to ward off epidemics.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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There are only two features and both flowed naturally.—
Richard Villegas,
Rolling Stone,
16 May 2025
Adverb
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Can one town be intrinsically wittier than the next town over?—
Christopher Bagley,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2025
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The company says the design intrinsically suppresses certain forms of errors, reducing the resources required for quantum error correction.—
Andrew Evers,Kate Rooney,
CNBC,
9 May 2025
Adverb
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Amazon’s newest Fire TV Soundbar Plus is basically the no-fuss upgrade your living room has been waiting for.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
20 May 2025
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Light is electromagnetic radiation: basically, an electric wave and a magnetic wave coupled together and traveling through space-time.—
Jarred Roberts,
The Conversation,
20 May 2025
Adverb
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The unprecedented $400 million gift, which President Donald Trump has said will transfer to his library after his term ends, will require extensive renovation to serve essentially as the flying White House.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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Her mom has trouble with intimate relationships and is sort of like a boy crazy mom, and Taylor's the one that's seeing the manifestation of that, and essentially comforting her mother and trying to help her.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
21 May 2025
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“Inherently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inherently. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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