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The confrontational Portnoy seems to intuit that controversies aren’t to be softened but stoked, even staged, for more attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

I look for patterns and try to intuit a policy out of the behavior and the decisions.

From Slate ● May 24, 2025

The answer, he figured, was a combination of charisma and an ability to intuit what a person wants to talk about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

It doesn’t set a precise path in advance, leaving followers to intuit which turns in the roads the Mazu statue will take and where she may stop.

From New York Times ● May 3, 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

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

When a sketchy guy checks in as first name Cash, last name Money, she intuits that his intentions are more than romantic.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

With surprising ease, she intuits how they operate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

When I walk back onto the street, the father intuits my apprehension.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Study after study now confirms what my father and mother intuited long before science caught up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

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

It was this divine connection that Calixto intuited — and “Mujeres Divinas,” the classic ranchera song by Vicente Fernández — that prompted the friends to introduce themselves as Conexión Divina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Now in his late-20s, Gary had been self-conscious about his weight at the time, and Yoko quickly intuited the source of his anxiety.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023

When the Dutch biologist Hugo de Vries encountered the concept of the gene in the 1890s, he quickly intuited that the idea would reorganize our understanding of the natural world.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The most daunting challenge was intuiting what Bessette would have worn in the years before she met Kennedy and became one of the most photographed women in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The company invented Alexa, intuiting people’s interest in speaking with computers, yet when OpenAI released ChatGPT it seemed to cede the territory.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2023

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

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

Bob Golomb is a great car salesman because he is very good, in the moment, at intuiting the intentions and needs and emotions of his customers.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell