innately

as in inherently
by natural character or ability Anne Frank's memorable belief that most people are innately good

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Recent Examples of innately The mornings feel cooler, evenings come quicker, and our bodies innately start craving structure. Essence, 8 Sep. 2025 Also, Koji innately tastes better, too. Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 Perhaps acting is innately nostalgic—nostalgic for human suffering, which used to be real somewhere else. Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025 What Inigo seemed to understand almost innately was that secrecy meant control. Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025 For example, short-nosed dogs are innately less friendly toward other dogs, but this is offset by their youth (younger dogs are typically more sociable). Laura Baisas Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • More risk The index is also tracking companies with inherently more risk given their preference for the largest cap companies, which tend to skew toward big tech.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Students see the subject itself as inherently forbidding because of its abstract nature.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • And those numbers are what, fundamentally, stock prices are based on.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • However, this paradigm implies that both A and B are fundamentally authentic and that attackers lack the resources to successfully replicate or create either.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Innately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innately. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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