intuitively
Americanadverb
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by means of direct perception, an instinctive inner sense, or gut feeling rather than rational thought.
They’ve been married so long, they know intuitively how best to support each other.
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in a way that is easy to understand or operate without explicit instruction.
The website is an invaluable resource that is intuitively designed, making it a simple task to search for a suitable doctor.
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Intuitively, it may seem the damages should have fallen differently: China is the world’s biggest net crude oil importer, and the U.S. is the biggest net crude exporter.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026
Intuitively, this is the idea that for any new piece of information, beliefs are updated in the smallest possible way that is compatible with the new facts.
From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025
Intuitively, it signals that ominous signs of euphoria are all around.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025
Intuitively, synthetic would refer to anything man-made, and that scoops up most fertilizers and pesticides that are produced in a lab from chemical ingredients.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025
Intuitively, biologists had long guessed that the best place to visualize a gene was the embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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