instinctive

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John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, a weapons expert and “instinctive leader” whose Bible-inspired narrative gifts would impel him to write an indelible account of events.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn’t be too bad if the weather warmed up,” he told the Guardian in 2008.

From Washington Post

“He was tough, scrappy, instinctive, physical,” Wisdom said.

From Los Angeles Times

The company’s football battery tests for nine skills: perception speed, search efficiency, tracking capacity, visual learning, instinctive learning, decision complexity, distraction control, impulse control and improvisation.

From Washington Post

“My refusal was instinctive; as a writer I did not want to take an award from the state,” he wrote in an essay for the Sunday Times of London.

From Washington Post