instinctively

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instinctively
Adverb
  • That game also took out more than 100 brackets in Yahoo Sports’ Men’s Bracket Mayhem, leaving 81 perfect brackets, essentially down to 0%.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Kennedy has pushed good nutrition and vitamin A supplementation as viable solutions to the Texas outbreak—suggesting, essentially, that the country’s approach to the disease should be to try to limit the damage of infections rather than prevent them.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • And so my attitude on this is, this is not fundamentally about free speech.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But, with some recent exceptions, these traditionalist Jews would not dream of using the language for literary fiction, which is a fundamentally modern and secular genre.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • They’ve been told that life is basically easy and that everyone is allowed to make mistakes, which is exactly the wrong way to look at a career in the entertainment industry.
    Rob Long, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • One of the best ways to put some bucks back into your pocket is to shop at Woot, which is basically a special deals hub run by Amazon.
    Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Instinctively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instinctively. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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