intuit
verb (used with or without object)
to know or receive by intuition.
have intuited
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present perfectof intuit.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Bush would so effectively obscure his life that even some of his best friends seemed to know little about what he was actually doing — though they may have intuited it.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2018
Even when feeling solitary in his pain, he must have intuited that others would empathize, or he would have left Crow as a basement tape.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2018
I must have intuited which way society was going – technologically, at any rate.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2014
This exquisite corpse is disconcerting because it flows so well; the artists seem to have intuited a motif of sinuous lines, even though they were blind to one another’s inventions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2012
But we have intuited the law, which declares the necessity of a beginning for us and all creatures; and we ever live in the light of the present end.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
