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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That represents your intuition and represents reflective energy, patience, and trust.
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Audrey Noble, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Song suggests prioritizing your intuition and personal style when making choices (before measuring your rooms’ dimensions to ensure every piece fits!).
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
Accounting For The Lack Of Human Cognitive Shortcuts One crucial but overlooked factor in AI bot training is the absence of human cognitive shortcuts—intuition, emotional inference and implicit understanding.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Both planets immediately make positive connections to spiritual Neptune—which just entered your sign for the first time in more than a century at the end of March—so your sense of intuition is being lit up just as intensely as your mind and motivation levels are.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
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Audrey Noble, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Song suggests prioritizing your intuition and personal style when making choices (before measuring your rooms’ dimensions to ensure every piece fits!).
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
Accounting For The Lack Of Human Cognitive Shortcuts One crucial but overlooked factor in AI bot training is the absence of human cognitive shortcuts—intuition, emotional inference and implicit understanding.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Both planets immediately make positive connections to spiritual Neptune—which just entered your sign for the first time in more than a century at the end of March—so your sense of intuition is being lit up just as intensely as your mind and motivation levels are.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Intuition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuition. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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