horse sense
Example Sentences
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He had that horse sense about him and how horses are traveling and what they should have left in the tank.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019
The ex-Rangers, reclassified as highway patrolmen for their new mission, prefer to rely on horse sense and cowboy folk wisdom.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019
“Some of them, my horse sense says that they’re kind of enjoying giving me a certain shock, and there’s a certain theatrical aspect … but I can’t know.”
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018
The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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