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Ada had intuited as much but had not known she had a half sister in Paris, the issue — she choked on the report — of her father’s parallel relationship.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018

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

That song reaffirmed everything I had intuited about mythological woman from all kinds of sources—from classic Hollywood movies to the masterpieces of the Louvre!

From Salon • Jan. 12, 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