innate

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She earns her nickname because of an innate “loftiness” that makes her “stately and stern but present.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

There is nothing innate to human psychology or inherent in modern economies that indicates recessions are part of an inevitable business cycle, he writes in his new book, Recession.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Instead of being concerned with product placement, they had an innate understanding of what their office symbolizes and demands.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

He describes an “unspoken, innate, really deep, almost inaccessible thing” between himself and his uncle.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

I’d be the last to doubt that good writers are blessed with an innate dose of fluency with syntax and memory for words.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker