as in instincts
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 intuitions
His best cuisine intuitions and concoctions served as part of the hotel’s fine-dining experience stem not from standing at the stovetop but from plenty of solo time spent pedaling his bicycle across Italian hilltops — music in the ears, pulse racing fast and nature all around him.
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Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
For example, while experts use chatbots as collaboration tools—riffing on ideas, clarifying intuitions—novices often treat them mistakenly as automation tools, oracles that speak from a bottomless well of knowledge.
—David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
The author Annaka Harris makes the case for why our common intuitions about consciousness are all wrong.
—Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Religious intuitions about dignity, responsibility, and limits remain ones that most humanity actively references.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
The result defies mathematicians’ usual intuitions about what functions can and cannot do.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
For example, while experts use chatbots as collaboration tools—riffing on ideas, clarifying intuitions—novices often treat them mistakenly as automation tools, oracles that speak from a bottomless well of knowledge.
—David Autor, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
The author Annaka Harris makes the case for why our common intuitions about consciousness are all wrong.
—Stephen Johnson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Religious intuitions about dignity, responsibility, and limits remain ones that most humanity actively references.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
The result defies mathematicians’ usual intuitions about what functions can and cannot do.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuitions
instincts
Noun
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Yet, those clusters of information have more often led to more good decisions than bad, a lot of which is credited to the instincts of Begiristain.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Suddenly, Mickey is offering him a chance to play the main stage, which sets Sam’s greedier instincts into overdrive.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Intuitions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuitions. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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