instinct
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This is someone who recently wrote a paper categorizing the ways AI might kill everyone, applying a mathematician’s instinct for order to the apocalypse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Almost by instinct, Leventhal turned to look at the empty, rail-guarded lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
His instinct was to photograph, but he did not expect one of his lakeside snapshots to go around the world within hours.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Your instinct that you’ll never be in a meaningfully lower tax bracket isn’t an unreasonable one, given your good fortune.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Moss had always heard a lot about the fight-or-flight instinct, but he had never experienced it; his mind had always channeled fear into stillness.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
It was not as though the open air of a farmers market was going to cure my base shopping instincts.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The album revels in baser instincts too, almost in defiance of the sweetly bashful “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
That they had in some way been instructed to go against their natural instincts.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
It combines sharp-eyed intelligence with genuine modesty and leavens clever opportunism with the recognition that all men are created equal, even if some are less equal in their instincts for getting paid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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