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Recent Examples of intuitively
Soundcore Noise Cancelling Earbuds Deal The Soundcore P40i features Adaptive Noise Cancelling, which intuitively adjusts to the roar of the world.
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Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Operators can guide tools to a target position intuitively.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
Lawlor’s book contains chapters devoted to politics, but her inclination to reach for examples of the reasonable and unreasonable that any reader will intuitively share serves her less well here.
—Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Residents and city planners intuitively understand this, and recent data bears it out.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
Forecasters announce major climate shift Perhaps counter-intuitively, the average person shouldn't find much comfort in the new prediction, forecasters say.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Reilly intuitively understands the psychology of opposing pitches.
—Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
In a movie about two women who intuitively understand each other, Brandt and Trebs are charmingly oafish as men who are eager to fix a dishwasher but less keen on how to repair trauma.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
Less intuitively, the trend line of long-declining homophobia reversed, resulting in a 10-point jump for explicit anti-gay bias over that same period.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Operators can guide tools to a target position intuitively.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
Lawlor’s book contains chapters devoted to politics, but her inclination to reach for examples of the reasonable and unreasonable that any reader will intuitively share serves her less well here.
—Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Residents and city planners intuitively understand this, and recent data bears it out.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
Forecasters announce major climate shift Perhaps counter-intuitively, the average person shouldn't find much comfort in the new prediction, forecasters say.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Reilly intuitively understands the psychology of opposing pitches.
—Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
In a movie about two women who intuitively understand each other, Brandt and Trebs are charmingly oafish as men who are eager to fix a dishwasher but less keen on how to repair trauma.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
Less intuitively, the trend line of long-declining homophobia reversed, resulting in a 10-point jump for explicit anti-gay bias over that same period.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuitively
Adverb
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Guests instinctively understand where to sit, where to eat and where to drift off when the conversation winds down.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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Most people hear it and instinctively think of concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and other minority populations during the Holocaust.—
Alex Braithwaite,
The Conversation,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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And the power of the internet essentially driving everything and being the backbone of everything.—
Nick Newman,
IndieWire,
6 May 2026
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Mosquito coils are essentially rolls of incense infused with citronella that slowly releases the scent to deter flying insects.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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But there was something belated about his adoption of this fundamentally European tradition.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Gallup finds that Americans are now nearly evenly split on whether the American Dream is fundamentally about opportunity — the ability to improve your life through education and better work — or stability, merely being able to hold a family together with a job and a safe place to live.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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“Intuitively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuitively. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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