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intuit

[in-too-it, -tyoo-, in-too-it, -tyoo-] / ɪnˈtu ɪt, -ˈtju-, ˈɪn tu ɪt, -tju- /


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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

The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2025

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

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

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

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

Barely a pause, but a pause nonetheless as the caller intuited that something wasn’t right.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

The waiter, somehow intuiting the pause in Celia’s story, melted back into view.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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