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Davis, who got his start in Columbia Records’ legal department, could identify original voices and seemed to intuit which songs were likely to become hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

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

He intuits that Mario is hiding something — perhaps a dark past that caused him to abandon Hatzín and his mother.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

Also, it's Winnie's 16th birthday, which Mother Witch intuits.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022

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

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 a boy, I must have intuited that what was foppish about Lynde, Reilly and Taylor coursed through me, too, even without the words to explain why.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

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

This philosopher is certainly not Newcomen; but Desaguliers had, I think, correctly intuited the only plausible route to the invention of the Newcomen engine.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“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

“To me it’s about intuiting the effects of it, being aware of its presence and how it molds us as much as the other way round. We are interconnected.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

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