as in instinct
an innate sense of what is true or what will happen
Although the child looked fine, the parents' intuition told them something was wrong.
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Recent Examples of intuition
October 01, 2025 Harvard Business School’s Stefan Thomke says running experiments can give companies tremendous value, but too often business leaders still make decisions based on intuition.
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Harvard Business Review, 1 Oct. 2025
This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
—Audiofile Magazine
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Your mind tells you one thing while your intuition says another.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
The winners of the next decade won’t be the companies that use AI to polish existing processes—they’ll be the ones that let AI uncover the signals human intuition misses and reimagine their operating model around them.
—Mike Hoffman, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
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Harvard Business Review, 1 Oct. 2025
This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
—Audiofile Magazine
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Your mind tells you one thing while your intuition says another.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
The winners of the next decade won’t be the companies that use AI to polish existing processes—they’ll be the ones that let AI uncover the signals human intuition misses and reimagine their operating model around them.
—Mike Hoffman, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuition
instinct
Noun
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For now at least, partisan instincts are raging and answers are in short supply.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Thanks to his cover instincts and reactionary athleticism, Johnson has the talent to be a Pro Bowler one day.—
Dane Brugler,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Intuition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuition. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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