intuit
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Hawking could intuit the mathematics that describes the fabric of spacetime, but in that earlier book he sometimes forgot that the rest of us could not do the same, and meandered into distracting mathematical discussions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
I look for patterns and try to intuit a policy out of the behavior and the decisions.
From Slate ● May 24, 2025
“At some point, the tech will evolve to the point where those guys can intuit where we’re headed and then be there with a little surprise for us,” Weir said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
They seem to intuit that camaraderie goes hand in hand with political ambition, and that they shouldn’t take the curriculum, or themselves, too seriously.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Theo gives a formal bow at the neck, which he must intuit would appeal to my father’s sense of respect and decorum.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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For the target, as “Fellow Travelers” intuits, isn’t queerness, or racial equality, or anti-capitalism per se, but nonconformity of any sort, which power seeks to stamp out for its own preservation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
But what a child intuits, grown scientists struggle to understand in detail.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023
With surprising ease, she intuits how they operate.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Time passes and his daughter grows increasingly frustrated because, as Roderick put it, "spatial orientation, process visualization and order of operation are not things she . . . intuits."
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2021
When I walk back onto the street, the father intuits my apprehension.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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Growing up in Hawaii, she came from a long line of “kitchen witches,” she explains — women who intuited measurements, spices and when a cake was done from the next room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Study after study now confirms what my father and mother intuited long before science caught up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Give Twain full credit: When writing that novel, he also intuited that the economic juggernaut driving his Gilded Age would come crashing down in what proved to be the devastating panic of 1893.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
As Diamond intuited, geographic mechanisms were significant in some areas, but the continent's dominant axis did not uniformly dictate the potential for cultural spread.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
But what Kaz Czarnecki intuited, and what the years would bear out, was this: Mary Jackson had the soul of an engineer.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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But the showrunner Michael Patrick King, now the creator of “And Just Like That …,” tried to convince him otherwise, intuiting that Corbett could supply the affection and warmth so lacking in Noth’s Big.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
“Part of being an editor is intuiting what it is that a writer wants or needs from you, and it’s different with every writer,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Saito works alone and with obvious joy here, engaging with a ready laugh, intuiting when to let you savor, entertaining any and all questions, slipping into the back sometimes for preparation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
For their part, Banville’s characters seem highly self-aware, intuiting the existence of a higher power that is toying with them and wondering what he is up to.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
Reading the way they interact, intuiting the emotions hidden beneath the laughter and conversation, catching the places that gazes linger.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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