intuit
verb (used with or without object)
to know or receive by intuition.
had intuited
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past perfectof intuit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps without meaning to, Schumacher had intuited the “emo” trend, albeit with a very groomed image.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2020
It was as if Bill Steiger had intuited the importance.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2019
It was as if he had intuited White’s theory without knowing the fancy academic jargon.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2018
When Opie was 8, a Lewis Hine photograph that she saw in a school book gave form to what she had intuited about her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2016
And then her expression turned grim, as if, in the brief silence between us, she had intuited the terrible thing I’d come to tell her.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
