as in instinct
an innate sense of what is true or what will happen
Although the child looked fine, the parents' intuition told them something was wrong.
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Recent Examples of intuition
She’s being asked to decode identities, intuitions, and ideas.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
There was some solace in the knowledge that here was a person trying—as philosophers do, at their best—to lend intellectual credibility to what might otherwise remain private emotional intuitions.
—Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Trust your intuition and remain calm in the face of challenges.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
Elsbeth spins off another Good Wife character, Carrie Preston's Elsbeth Tascioni, a quirky attorney whose idiosyncratic methods and infallible intuition land her a unique gig assisting the NYPD on hard-to-crack cases.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
There was some solace in the knowledge that here was a person trying—as philosophers do, at their best—to lend intellectual credibility to what might otherwise remain private emotional intuitions.
—Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Trust your intuition and remain calm in the face of challenges.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
Elsbeth spins off another Good Wife character, Carrie Preston's Elsbeth Tascioni, a quirky attorney whose idiosyncratic methods and infallible intuition land her a unique gig assisting the NYPD on hard-to-crack cases.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Intuition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intuition. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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