intuit

“Children,” she notes in “The Well-Educated Child,” “can intuit how you feel about them,” which is “why we hired people who genuinely loved kids.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 24, 2025

The answer, he figured, was a combination of charisma and an ability to intuit what a person wants to talk about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

It doesn’t set a precise path in advance, leaving followers to intuit which turns in the roads the Mazu statue will take and where she may stop.

From New York Times ● May 3, 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

With surprising ease, she intuits how they operate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

Time passes and his daughter grows increasingly frustrated because, as Roderick put it, "spatial orientation, process visualization and order of operation are not things she . . . intuits."

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2021

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

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

As Tocqueville intuited long ago, Americans owe much of that to the democracy the founders built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 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

It was this divine connection that Calixto intuited — and “Mujeres Divinas,” the classic ranchera song by Vicente Fernández — that prompted the friends to introduce themselves as Conexión Divina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

I intuited that such revelations made Augustine a Protestant church father more than a Catholic father.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The company invented Alexa, intuiting people’s interest in speaking with computers, yet when OpenAI released ChatGPT it seemed to cede the territory.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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

The waiter, somehow intuiting the pause in Celia’s story, melted back into view.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon