How to Use intuit in a Sentence
intuit
verb- She intuited a connection between the two crimes.
- He was able to intuit the answer immediately.
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Nilofar, now eight, could intuit the rhythms of wartime.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
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The creators of to-do apps all intuit the challenge of the Zeigarnik effect.
—Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
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Tell us how the Eurasian jay intuits his mate’s state of mind, and what that tells us about bird empathy.
—National Geographic, 15 May 2016
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Tell us how the Eurasian jay intuits his mate’s state of mind, and what that tells us about bird empathy.
—National Geographic, 15 May 2016
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The challenge was intuiting what her life will be like in the future.
—Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 15 Sep. 2016
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Reflect upon a world map to help intuit the best places for moves or visits.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2020
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How is the person able to intuit whether someone will drink or dump water?
—Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
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At just over a year old, my own daughter already intuits so much.
—Amber Tamblyn, Time, 12 May 2018
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The team had to intuit that the issue was Moonlight's inclusion of a default app to connect to, Steam.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
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Fewer than half of the killings have been solved, but Gary intuits that most of these young black male victims were killed by other young black men.
—Theodore Decker, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
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And the face is our primary window to intuit the mind of another.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 June 2018
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The show doesn’t need to strain to make points about the sort of person who refuses to intuit what’s on the horizon–not that that stops Schmidt from indulging in melodrama.
—Daniel D'addario, Time, 28 Feb. 2018
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Archimedes intuited this more than 2,000 years ago, and Paisley was proving it.
—Sarah Scoles, Washington Post, 17 June 2018
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The math is more confusing now, a little harder to intuit.
—Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
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Le Van Hung stepped with a mix of angst and hope from his weathered house under coconut palms on Vietnam’s central coast, around the clucking chickens and up the short path to intuit the waves, the sky, the sun.
—Patrick Scott Peter Kujawinski Elaine Sciolino Tacey Rychter Sui-Lee Wee Charu Suri, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
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The Ron DeSantis campaign’s theory of its case has not been hard to intuit.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 July 2023
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His victories come from having a brilliant team that can obey and intuit his orders as well as invent and improve ideas on the fly.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2011
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It’s hard to intuit exactly how the character of Burns is intended to come across.
—Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2018
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The first is perhaps easier to intuit: The dense and heavy metal, glass and ceramic items absorb and hold more heat during the washing process, and retain it for a longer time.
—C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
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Several years ago, the horror film Countdown imagined an app that was able to intuit, down to the second, the time of a person’s death, with the user agreement serving as a deal with the devil.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
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Rory and Eustace, intuiting the man’s capability, got onto their feet and stepped clear of the young man.
—Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
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The average customer—or voter—doesn’t really know much about the debt, other than to vaguely intuit that too much debt is bad.
—Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 6 June 2018
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But don't shoehorn in a hair streak so that the audience will be able to intuit her entire personality from it.
—Rae Chen, Teen Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
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With the algorithm always ten steps ahead, intuiting our next thought, ‘Influenced!’ is the story of an everyday trap that none of us can seem to avoid.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
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Not based on anything your faithful puck chronicler has heard, seen, or intuited these last 15 years.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
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Despite his novice status, Ben-Adir has already intuited some awards show tips.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
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There, Linklater intuits exactly when to turn his camera away from the action and when to more directly confront the viewer.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
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And, even if that research is relatively new, TIME’s archives show that women in the workplace have intuited the danger for decades.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2018
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