innate
Example Sentences
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"Harnessing human lectins as tools to combat antimicrobial resistance opens up a fundamentally new strategy that draws on our own innate immune defenses," Kiessling says.
From Science Daily
Galthie, a deep thinker who reads philosophy and classical literature, has admitted he believes in an innate French characteristic, to fight hardest and best when pushed to the brink.
From BBC
Instead of being concerned with product placement, they had an innate understanding of what their office symbolizes and demands.
From Salon
Meanwhile, Jobs tapped his innate marketing sensibilities to start selling computers preassembled in friendly plastic cases.
“What I didn’t love about fashion was there was an innate snobbiness,” she says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.