instinct

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There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

If only they’d heeded their instinct to keep quiet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

That instinct is rooted in a series of shocks that have quietly reshaped household balance sheets.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

Those are the moments you write down and burn into your memory, because when they come around again - and they always do in Test rugby - you want the instinct to be automatic.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

He couldn’t tell whether it was fear that held him, or sudden loss of hope, or whether he was playing dead out of long-forgotten instinct.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig