intuit

Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

I look for patterns and try to intuit a policy out of the behavior and the decisions.

From Slate ● May 24, 2025

The answer, he figured, was a combination of charisma and an ability to intuit what a person wants to talk about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

They seem to intuit that camaraderie goes hand in hand with political ambition, and that they shouldn’t take the curriculum, or themselves, too seriously.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

Theo gives a formal bow at the neck, which he must intuit would appeal to my father’s sense of respect and decorum.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

For the target, as “Fellow Travelers” intuits, isn’t queerness, or racial equality, or anti-capitalism per se, but nonconformity of any sort, which power seeks to stamp out for its own preservation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

But what a child intuits, grown scientists struggle to understand in detail.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023

She doesn’t know what the adults are going through, but she intuits how they feel.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

Also, it's Winnie's 16th birthday, which Mother Witch intuits.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022

When I walk back onto the street, the father intuits my apprehension.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

As Tocqueville intuited long ago, Americans owe much of that to the democracy the founders built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Growing up in Hawaii, she came from a long line of “kitchen witches,” she explains — women who intuited measurements, spices and when a cake was done from the next room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

As Diamond intuited, geographic mechanisms were significant in some areas, but the continent's dominant axis did not uniformly dictate the potential for cultural spread.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

Now in his late-20s, Gary had been self-conscious about his weight at the time, and Yoko quickly intuited the source of his anxiety.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

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

But the showrunner Michael Patrick King, now the creator of “And Just Like That …,” tried to convince him otherwise, intuiting that Corbett could supply the affection and warmth so lacking in Noth’s Big.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Saito works alone and with obvious joy here, engaging with a ready laugh, intuiting when to let you savor, entertaining any and all questions, slipping into the back sometimes for preparation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

For their part, Banville’s characters seem highly self-aware, intuiting the existence of a higher power that is toying with them and wondering what he is up to.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022

The waiter, somehow intuiting the pause in Celia’s story, melted back into view.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon