intuitively

adverb

as in instinctively

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Recent Examples of intuitively The real battleground is over the robot brains, or vision-language-action (VLA) models, which are designed to turn human inputs into embodied AI performing intuitively and accurately. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 July 2026 Effective leadership fundamentally relies on human connection, empathy, and the ability to intuitively understand others—all are qualities biologically governed by sleep. — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 Rollerena seems to have understood this almost intuitively, resisting the slide into obscurity. — Emilie Hardman, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2026 My father understood this intuitively. — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Fortune, 21 June 2026 Authentic Connection From the beginning of time, humans have always intuitively known that community and connection are vitally important. — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 21 June 2026 Adamolekun seems to understand this intuitively. — Rita Omokha, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026 The best street outreach workers already teach some of these skills intuitively. — Megan Kang, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026 The best teams are not just talented but also intuitively linked. — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuitively
  1. instinctively
  2. essentially
  3. fundamentally
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  • When competition increases, most businesses instinctively focus on pricing as their primary lever.
    — Dmitriy Schwarzburg, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Rooftops and Nightcaps Then Merchant & Trade rises above the skyline with the kind of rooftop view that makes people instinctively reach for their phones to capture a few sexy shots before throwing one back.
    — Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Definition of instinctively
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  • You rarely get paid $100 to work on your laptop and then take a nap, André Schwämmlein says, but that’s essentially what his company offers people who take its Greyhound buses between Boston and New York.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 24 July 2026
  • The Eagles essentially ripped out the fullback pages of their playbook after Ben VanSumeren tore his patellar tendon on the opening kickoff of the 2025 season.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of essentially
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  • When a disability fundamentally alters how an individual understands relationships or interprets social situations, failing to recognize those differences risks producing outcomes that satisfy consistency while falling short of justice.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • The fix gets dismissed as a database bolted onto a chatbot, when continual learning is a fundamentally unsolved machine learning problem.
    — Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, Fortune, 25 July 2026
Definition of fundamentally

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