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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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As the ball flashed through the bodies in front of him, Raya instinctively shot out his left leg at the final moment to make a tremendous save.—
Matt Pyzdrowski,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
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Emotional honesty is the definitive characteristic behind all of the Gipsy Kings' music, which is something that transcends language and that Baliardo genuinely believes audiences instinctively feel during live shows, regardless of what nation the band performs in.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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Multiple scans of the Neanderthal tooth, as well as experiments using tools on modern human teeth, suggest that someone had essentially drilled out the cavity.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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The orders, issued by the agency’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Space Bureau, aren’t surprising given that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr essentially forced EchoStar to sell the licenses.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
Adverb
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Most fundamentally, innovation raises productivity, which in turn makes higher living standards possible.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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The report shows that AI is not just increasing the volume of bot activity, but fundamentally changing its nature.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
10 May 2026
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“Intuitively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuitively. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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