instinctively

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instinctively
Adverb
  • And all of these places essentially are madrassas, or Islamic seminaries.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
  • But Trump has implemented a 10% universal tariff on virtually every product entering the United States — with higher rates for certain goods — and 145% tariffs on China, essentially a trade embargo on the world’s second largest economy.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Adverb
  • If the media environment is fragmented, so, too, is the Democratic resistance itself: split, as Kang wrote in this column, in February, among incompatible strategic impulses; severed from a discredited Party establishment but uncertain where to go next; fundamentally leaderless.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
  • Manufacturing underpins modern technology, yet its core processes haven’t fundamentally changed since the mid-20th century.
    Matthew Putman, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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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“Instinctively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instinctively. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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