- plural of instinct.
instincts
Example Sentences
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As the world remembers Parton, one of our top stories today looks at how her business instincts made her a shrewd operator in the notoriously opaque music industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But this is one of those areas where our investing instincts can work against us.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
As somebody with roots in musical theater, did you have to curtail some of those instincts that you might’ve had to be a little more expressive?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Not for the first time, her instincts proved right.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
