intuit
verb (used with or without object)
to know or receive by intuition.
was intuiting
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past progressiveof intuit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The most daunting challenge was intuiting what Bessette would have worn in the years before she met Kennedy and became one of the most photographed women in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
That was her way of saying something she was intuiting: that her country emits 1 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases but experiences the shock of what the developed countries do.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
But he said his true talent was intuiting his opponents’ patterns and finding plays that scrambled them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
