instinct

The cartoon turned the dynamic into an armed raid by cereal characters, but the basic instinct — watch a useful moral vocabulary become commercially useful — was already recognizable.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I took one step back,” he told me, “then instinct kicked in.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Then ask whether there is an explanation for what you are seeing that is better than your first instinct.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

"I think it's partly instinct, using my football brain and getting the feeling on the pitch," says Kane.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

On a sudden instinct he dived to one side as the owl pounced.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Kritenbrink, for his part, said the summit has done "nothing to curb the competitive instincts of both sides on AI."

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The gravitational joy of Wilson’s comic approach is watching how he follows his instincts and later applies his own sui generis mortar to the assembled vérité blocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He said he had reason to believe that Harris’ own instincts might have led somewhere different in that election but that she never had enough control over her own campaign to follow them.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Instead, she has followed her ever-shifting instincts over her past few LPs, zigzagging among ’80s rock, folk-pop, dream-pop and R&B with highly mixed results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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