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
“One of the all-time great horses in this era,” said Sherman, whose horse sense comes hard-earned.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
Independent women with choices stand as a factual refutation to the watery stew of evolutionary psychology, macho posturing, and LAN party horse sense that these groups subsist on.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2015
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
