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intrinsic

[in-trin-sik, -zik] / ɪnˈtrɪn sɪk, -zɪk /


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“We’re drawn to the intrinsic beauty of it,” says Vanessa Patrick, a professor of marketing at the University of Houston’s C.T.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

There are personality differences, disagreement with book choices, intrinsic ways of seeing the world that can occasionally come to a head in a book club.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Finally landing the Masters last year, becoming only the sixth man to complete the career Grand Slam, provides an intrinsic value which the 36-year-old from Northern Ireland has long been searching for.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The findings, published in Nature Communications, show that measuring the OAM of two entangled photons reveals an intrinsic topology, a fundamental feature of the entanglement itself.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

What he was saying possessed an intrinsic logic which he had no means of halting; it had to grind to its own conclusion.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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