instinct
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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
In a statement as chilling as it is insulting, Davis suggests that the protesters triggered a “Mother Hen” instinct that led the justice to rule against the administration on the birthright citizenship case.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Watson's instinct is to keep the uncertainty visible.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Yet to listen to the brisk and sportive “Foreign Tongues” is to hear a band clearly going on instinct rather than overthinking the music à la any number of veteran acts in legacy-maintenance mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
One thing I know: that if my instinct be true regarding poor Mrs. Harker’s silences, then there is a terrible difficulty—an unknown danger—in the work before us.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
The album revels in baser instincts too, almost in defiance of the sweetly bashful “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
But I always trust the instincts of a good cat.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
"It's all actually sad because I think her instincts are generally OK, but by the time she figured out the right things to do, it was too late".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Instead, the evidence suggests that artificial lighting is disrupting the animals' normal instincts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
There, the initial instincts of physicians about who was suffering a heart attack weren’t very good.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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