instinctual

Example Sentences

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They’re hard-working, action-oriented and instinctual, and they tend to learn by doing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

“Yermak was more a sort of instinctual negotiator…Budanov has his instincts, but I think he’s going to be much more punctilious about the preparations.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

More than anything, he had an uncanny ability to tap into the instinctual and ephemeral—and an uncanny ability to make the personal resonate in universal ways.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

I don’t want to make decisions based on my fear of something tragic happening And so my instinctual feeling is that I’ll rebuild.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

Mendel, as we shall see, was an instinctual gardener—a breeder of plants, a counter of seeds, an isolator of traits; Darwin was a garden digger—a classifier of plants, an organizer of specimens, a taxonomist.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee