instinct
Example Sentences
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Students in the affected area of Canterbury are being advised to trust their instincts - do not wait for all symptoms to appear or for a rash to develop before seeking help.
From BBC
Those are the moments you write down and burn into your memory, because when they come around again - and they always do in Test rugby - you want the instinct to be automatic.
From BBC
His first presidential campaign in 2016 was marked by a feral but highly developed gut instinct for what the public wanted, or at least what it thought it wanted.
From Salon
That tug of war is likely to cement central bank officials’ instincts to sit still and wait for clarity rather than act pre-emptively.
“Once he did the research and arrived at a conclusion, he was always confident in following his instincts,” said Matthew Skinner, who clerked for the judge from 2009 to 2011.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.