intuit

“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

And there are those who just hum a few bars and allow the musicians to intuit the key and melody enough to follow along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

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

He intuits that Mario is hiding something — perhaps a dark past that caused him to abandon Hatzín and his mother.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

Give Twain full credit: When writing that novel, he also intuited that the economic juggernaut driving his Gilded Age would come crashing down in what proved to be the devastating panic of 1893.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

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

Sometimes that involves osmosis, like when Ice told Riot she “needed a ‘SpongeBob’-type beat” for “Bikini Bottom,” and he intuited the music so accurately some fans thought it was actually from the long-running cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

Gordon had a few small parts in her parents’ projects, but otherwise she stuck to school and camp and community shows, intuiting that she could not yet handle the rejection that auditioning would bring.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 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

Bob Golomb is a great car salesman because he is very good, in the moment, at intuiting the intentions and needs and emotions of his customers.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell