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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

But the feature allowing it to intuit areas of tension that need massaging hasn’t been rolled out yet, Litman says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

As you may intuit, this movie belongs to a very particular subgenre summed up in one declaration: boy, small English towns are full of weirdos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 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

“She either comprehends or intuits, not what necessarily is the most obvious choice for dramatic action or dramatic events, but what’s under the surface, where the real meaning of a piece lies,” Kushner said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

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

As Tocqueville intuited long ago, Americans owe much of that to the democracy the founders built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

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

I intuited that such revelations made Augustine a Protestant church father more than a Catholic father.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

That was her way of saying something she was intuiting: that her country emits 1 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases but experiences the shock of what the developed countries do.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 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

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