as in inherently
by natural character or ability
he's worked hard to be good at baseball, as he's not intrinsically athletic
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Recent Examples of intrinsically
Collaboration is not intrinsically better than automation.
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David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Endocrinologists aside, most of us probably haven't considered that water intake and stress hormones are even linked, let alone intrinsically connected.
—New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
People intrinsically want to do a good job.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
In 2015, researchers at NIST used it to provide the most definitive proof yet of entanglement—a quantum phenomenon in which the quantum states of two particles are intrinsically linked, no matter how far apart.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025
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David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Endocrinologists aside, most of us probably haven't considered that water intake and stress hormones are even linked, let alone intrinsically connected.
—New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
People intrinsically want to do a good job.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 5 Aug. 2025
In 2015, researchers at NIST used it to provide the most definitive proof yet of entanglement—a quantum phenomenon in which the quantum states of two particles are intrinsically linked, no matter how far apart.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intrinsically
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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
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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
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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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“Intrinsically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intrinsically. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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