instinctively

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Recent Examples of instinctively When first responders found her afterward, Wilkins instinctively reached out to Longmont Police Officer Billy Sawyer. Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025 To keep the cattle and other animals away, the owls will huddle together, clacking their beaks to mimic rattlesnakes, which cattle instinctively know to avoid. Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025 Looking into the bear’s eyes, Duane fired instinctively from the hip. Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025 Gomes finds Alba, and Messi instinctively runs to a central zone as Real Madrid’s defence opt to protect the box instead. Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 Enter Black creators, who are at the forefront of AI’s inevitable intrigue, instinctively finding home in the strangely familiar newness of technological development. Essence, 24 Sep. 2025 Back in 2020, most Americans instinctively knew that drinking or injecting bleach was dangerous. Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025 Human toddlers do it instinctively … and so, apparently, do Gifted Word Learner dogs. New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025 Being the default means users instinctively reach for your product without even thinking. Bowen Liu, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instinctively
Adverb
  • Studies have found that most children intuitively understand the difference between real and imaginary friends, and the different roles played by each.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This is not merely an intuitively satisfying compromise between looking and leaping.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Switching up the pedal-assist modes provides a subtle bump in motor power at each level, which essentially makes your legs feel more powerful at the pedal.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Regretting You essentially splits itself into two occasionally intersecting plots, that of Morgan and Jonah’s healing and of Clara’s nascent romance.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Carlson and others hypothesize that the metabolic ceiling fundamentally reflects a limit in digestion and nutrient absorption, which fuel the body’s muscles.
    Jason Dinh, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His goal is to keep the team united and coax it toward more complete and fundamentally sound efforts.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Defense attorneys said at trial that Nicklaus Companies executives never tried to defame Nicklaus and argued the case was basically a business dispute.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • F*cking up, basically is something that hasn’t been historically afforded to women at all.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Instinctively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instinctively. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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