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The confrontational Portnoy seems to intuit that controversies aren’t to be softened but stoked, even staged, for more attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025

I look for patterns and try to intuit a policy out of the behavior and the decisions.

From Slate ● May 24, 2025

“At some point, the tech will evolve to the point where those guys can intuit where we’re headed and then be there with a little surprise for us,” Weir said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

Theo gives a formal bow at the neck, which he must intuit would appeal to my father’s sense of respect and decorum.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

For the target, as “Fellow Travelers” intuits, isn’t queerness, or racial equality, or anti-capitalism per se, but nonconformity of any sort, which power seeks to stamp out for its own preservation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

But what a child intuits, grown scientists struggle to understand in detail.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 6, 2023

Also, it's Winnie's 16th birthday, which Mother Witch intuits.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022

With surprising ease, she intuits how they operate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

When I walk back onto the street, the father intuits my apprehension.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Study after study now confirms what my father and mother intuited long before science caught up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

Give Twain full credit: When writing that novel, he also intuited that the economic juggernaut driving his Gilded Age would come crashing down in what proved to be the devastating panic of 1893.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

As Diamond intuited, geographic mechanisms were significant in some areas, but the continent's dominant axis did not uniformly dictate the potential for cultural spread.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

Sometimes that involves osmosis, like when Ice told Riot she “needed a ‘SpongeBob’-type beat” for “Bikini Bottom,” and he intuited the music so accurately some fans thought it was actually from the long-running cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Ivanito intuited her movements, dipping her with such reluctant fluidity that the music ached and blossomed around them.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Gordon had a few small parts in her parents’ projects, but otherwise she stuck to school and camp and community shows, intuiting that she could not yet handle the rejection that auditioning would bring.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

“Part of being an editor is intuiting what it is that a writer wants or needs from you, and it’s different with every writer,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

Saito works alone and with obvious joy here, engaging with a ready laugh, intuiting when to let you savor, entertaining any and all questions, slipping into the back sometimes for preparation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

For their part, Banville’s characters seem highly self-aware, intuiting the existence of a higher power that is toying with them and wondering what he is up to.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022

Bob Golomb is a great car salesman because he is very good, in the moment, at intuiting the intentions and needs and emotions of his customers.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell