inborn

Example Sentences

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Reeves has always gently but firmly drawn a curtain around his off-screen life, with an inborn awareness of the absurdities of fame — of how the Keanu we see is not the Keanu he is.

From Washington Post

So I set aside my inborn inclination for bells and whistles and complication and stuck my fork into the tangle of tagliatelle.

From Washington Post

It’s a hard and perilous excursion, one made increasingly more difficult by Lucas, whose self-confidence — inborn or instilled — rapidly hardens into dangerous willfulness.

From New York Times

It may be that culture turns an inborn human ability to detect snakes into a fear.

From Scientific American

The Declaration is aspirational, debuting a uniquely American theory: that government exists to secure people’s inborn, individual, inalienable rights.

From Washington Post