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instinct

[in-stingkt] / ˈɪn stɪŋkt /


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I think my instinct is always to lean into the darkness or edge, so Nickelodeon was actually kind of hard for me to pull off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The fact that the image exists indicates at least one person had the instinct to take a photo of the messages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

David proved "his instinct for showmanship", Schatz said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He explains rather than simply demonstrates, an instinct that has surprised the coaching staff as much as his football has.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ruthless as a gun dog, he picked up with rapid and unflagging instinct the traces of everything in the world I was most insecure about, all the things I was in most agony to hide.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Shattock urged women experiencing persistent pain to trust their instincts.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Kritenbrink, for his part, said the summit has done "nothing to curb the competitive instincts of both sides on AI."

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

He said he had reason to believe that Harris’ own instincts might have led somewhere different in that election but that she never had enough control over her own campaign to follow them.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Instead, she has followed her ever-shifting instincts over her past few LPs, zigzagging among ’80s rock, folk-pop, dream-pop and R&B with highly mixed results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He believed that children, like little monkeys, were born with certain instincts of self-preservation, but that the instincts vanished because babies were kept cooped up in a crib.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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