intuit

[ in-too-it, -tyoo-; in-too-it, -tyoo- ]

/ ɪnˈtu ɪt, -ˈtyu-; ˈɪn tu ɪt, -tyu- /

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verb (used with or without object)

to know or receive by intuition.

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Origin of intuit

First recorded in 1770–80; back formation from intuition

OTHER WORDS FROM intuit

in·tu·it·a·ble, adjectiveun·in·tu·it·a·ble, adjective

Words nearby intuit

intrusion, intrusive, intrust, intubate, INTUC, intuit, intuition, intuitional, intuitionalism, intuitionism, intuitive

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How to use intuit in a sentence

The result suggests that domestication has reworked dogs’ brains to make the pooches innately drawn to people — and perhaps to intuit human gestures.
Dogs tune into people in ways even human-raised wolves don’t|Jaime Chambers|July 12, 2021|Science News
Dogs intuit human gestures from a young age, Salomons and colleagues conclude, lending support for the idea that domestication has wired dogs’ brains for communicating with humans.
Dogs tune into people in ways even human-raised wolves don’t|Jaime Chambers|July 12, 2021|Science News
Younger siblings, research shows, deploy what are known as “low-power strategies,” developing a better ability to read other people’s visual and tonal cues and intuit what they’re thinking—the better to duck a punch before it comes their way.
What Meghan and Harry's New Daughter Needs to Know About Being a Second-Born|Jeffrey Kluger|June 7, 2021|Time
From that, we can intuit that Klarna had a great fourth quarter.
As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings|Alex Wilhelm|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch

It should be noted that her constituency includes Silicon Valley, which is where Intuit is located.
Meet the People Making it Harder for You to File Your Taxes|Ilana Glazer|April 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
These companies include HR Block and Intuit, creator of the popular program TurboTax.
Meet the People Making it Harder for You to File Your Taxes|Ilana Glazer|April 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
TurboTax products and services made up 35 percent of Intuit's $4.2 billion in total revenues last year.
Meet the People Making it Harder for You to File Your Taxes|Ilana Glazer|April 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Intuit has spent about $11.5 million on federal lobbying in the past five years — more than Apple or Amazon.
Meet the People Making it Harder for You to File Your Taxes|Ilana Glazer|April 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Intuit PAC and its employees have donated $26,000 to Rep. Lofgren in the past two years.
Meet the People Making it Harder for You to File Your Taxes|Ilana Glazer|April 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He must mean that we cannot in imagination intuit it as absent.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'|Norman Kemp Smith
He cannot intuit, or think otherwise than in accordance with them.
Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation|Jesse H. Jones
No one save a Bohemian could ever so intuit the gloomy profundity and unearthly fire of the Colchian sorceress.
The Gypsies|Charles G. Leland
You cannot think without universalising, nor intuit without thinking.
Beauty and the Beast|Stewart A. McDowall
Intuit′ionalism, the doctrine that the perception of truth is by intuition; Intuit′ionalist.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various

British Dictionary definitions for intuit

intuit

/ (ɪnˈtjuːɪt) /

verb

to know or discover by intuition

Derived forms of intuit

intuitable, adjective

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