as in knowing
to have a clear idea of
an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters
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Recent Examples of intuiting
And so the podcast’s producers, perhaps intuiting that the dialogue experiment with conservatives is failing, occasionally slot in friendlier agents of power, Hollywood types, with whom Newsom can discuss the finer points of things like tax incentives to film in the state of California.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Like intuiting the next stage of the story, which takes time and is inefficient.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Lecter’s main power was his penetrating thinking and sustained intuiting.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Instead, first Anna and Tess and then Harper and Lily land at the table of bargain-basement psychic Madame Jen (Vanessa Bayer, working hard for little dividend), who surprises even herself by intuiting that the older Colemans’ lifelines have intersected before.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Like intuiting the next stage of the story, which takes time and is inefficient.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Lecter’s main power was his penetrating thinking and sustained intuiting.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Instead, first Anna and Tess and then Harper and Lily land at the table of bargain-basement psychic Madame Jen (Vanessa Bayer, working hard for little dividend), who surprises even herself by intuiting that the older Colemans’ lifelines have intersected before.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuiting
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Admitting not knowing much about Iran, Yan said her curiosity has only grown stronger since the war broke out.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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If Bain ends up available along with one of the top defensive backs, the depth of this edge rusher class could serve as a tiebreaker, knowing what’s available on Day 2.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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In the end, the deepest release isn’t about getting a medical tag, but rather about understanding why those unrelenting obstacles continued to exist.—
Lucy Jones
April 11,
Miami Herald,
11 Apr. 2026
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That design, which is unlike anything else in the economy, makes the gas-price sign a kind of key to understanding American life.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
11 Apr. 2026
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The study creates new criteria for deciphering old dice and allows archaeologists to further explore how games have evolved over time, researchers say.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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In 1962, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and in 2004, Major League Baseball officially began recognizing April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Kennedy, recognizing that she was being asked to sign a false statement, declined.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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As for whether comprehending the wiring of the brain really demands techniques from the frontiers of theoretical physics, questions remain.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
13 Jan. 2026
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Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts.—
Lacey Beasley,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Why more Sacramento residents are seeking evaluation As public awareness changes, individuals who were formerly written off as chaotic, fragile, strange or unstable are now seeing those outdated stories from a contemporary perspective.—
Malana VanTyler,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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Others have bounced between depression protocols, strict planners or generic life-coaching without ever grasping why the puzzle pieces refuse to connect.—
Lucy Jones
April 11,
Miami Herald,
11 Apr. 2026
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Faster grasping smarter robots The team tested HEAPGrasp on a real robotic setup across 20 scenarios involving different combinations of transparent, opaque, and reflective objects.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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Does appreciating art in a 1950s-style motor lodge sound more your speed?—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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In the meantime, 10 is a round number worth appreciating in Adelman’s eyes.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Intuiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuiting. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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