innate
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"I have an innate ability to take good material and make it better, and to take bad material and make it fair."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
More than their predecessors, they have an innate versatility with the fast-evolving technology and little deference for the notion they have to pay their dues with repetitive grunt work.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
We have this almost innate sense of: Well, if they indict someone, that person probably did something pretty bad.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
Humor resonates with something individual, possibly innate and probably inexplicable inside each of us; our sense of it is something we can’t control.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Major Major had never played basketball or any other game before, but his great, bobbing height and rapturous enthusiasm helped make up for his innate clumsiness and lack of experience.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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