instinctive
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"When panicked, people fall back on their instinctive responses, and don't read small print in a dark and possibly smoke-filled cabin."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
At the end of the show, a stunning reading of “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” revealed the instinctive ease with which she can navigate the sweet, syncopated phrasing of Dominican merengue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
For a long time, I assumed the solution was to become more instinctive.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The instinctive response is elegiac: lament the shuttered campus, mourn the futures it might have made, hope for rescue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing instinctive
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
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