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
That meant, with season four being intrinsically tied to Dominion, Chaos Theory’s final nine episodes were able to weave their plot and characters into the events of the movie.
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Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
There is an emergent view among cognitive psychologists that episodic memories are intrinsically visual in nature and, effectively, the brain is re-tasking the navigational parts that include knowing landmarks and their relative positions as a means of organizing memories.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
Their relationship is both intrinsically unequal and romantic, one of many fraught attachments in Laing’s historical novel.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
Long-period comets also tend to be intrinsically brighter than ones with smaller orbits.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
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Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
There is an emergent view among cognitive psychologists that episodic memories are intrinsically visual in nature and, effectively, the brain is re-tasking the navigational parts that include knowing landmarks and their relative positions as a means of organizing memories.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
Their relationship is both intrinsically unequal and romantic, one of many fraught attachments in Laing’s historical novel.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
Long-period comets also tend to be intrinsically brighter than ones with smaller orbits.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intrinsically
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While skepticism toward artificial intelligence is understandable, dismissing AI as inherently harmful overlooks both history and reality.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Beijing is also well aware that American democracy is inherently prone to flip-flops and that the hard-line Washington consensus on China is likely to return with the next election.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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That's exactly what Cooper Howard is trying to figure out, is here's a character who on his face is fundamentally sort of duplicitous, right?—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
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Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government.—
Duncan Hosie,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Intrinsically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intrinsically. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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