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intuit

[in-too-it, -tyoo-, in-too-it, -tyoo-] / ɪnˈtu ɪt, -ˈtju-, ˈɪn tu ɪt, -tju- /


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“Children,” she notes in “The Well-Educated Child,” “can intuit how you feel about them,” which is “why we hired people who genuinely loved kids.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2025

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

From Slate May 24, 2025

But the feature allowing it to intuit areas of tension that need massaging hasn’t been rolled out yet, Litman says.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 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

With surprising ease, she intuits how they operate.

From Seattle Times Nov. 18, 2021

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

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

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

Study after study now confirms what my father and mother intuited long before science caught up.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 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

My mother has since told me that she intuited the real reason for the psychological assessment, but chose not to dwell on it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

But he said his true talent was intuiting his opponents’ patterns and finding plays that scrambled them.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2022

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

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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