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 signals that ominous signs of euphoria are all around.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025
"Intuitively, you think that this is something which is produced deliberately during a focused search, and it cannot possibly exist in nature," said Prozorov, "But it turns out it does."
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
Intuitively, longer cells should encounter more resistance in a fluid, hence slowing their pace.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023
Intuitively combining fresh spinach and heavy cream over heat produced disastrous results, so Walsh reached out to a chef friend who recommended he just use cream of mushroom soup and frozen spinach, instead.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2023
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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