intuition
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"But no one knows for sure what will happen or not. You just rely on your intuition and survival instinct," the 34-year-old said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
At a moment when technology promises ever-greater efficiency, “The Bear” makes a quieter if tenacious case for the value of people: their improvisation, intuition and stubborn belief that something worth doing is worth doing well.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
But research shows that many people follow their intuition and treat the numbers as evenly spaced, placing a billion roughly halfway between a million and trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
As Dr. Furuya explained, the work helps bring a long-standing artistic intuition into the realm of science.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
My ecstatic intuition about myself was now deeply suppressed.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"I think I understand more about why that wasn't done -- obviously gratefully -- but that is an area where my intuitions were just off."
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
We trust our intuitions when we should rely on rational calculation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
We’re continuing to study how cultural values, social systems and moral intuitions shape people’s judgments of fairness and excess – from views of wealth and ambition to knowledge and AI computing power.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2025
Dr. Chomsky and other researchers have rejected that idea, pointing out the ambiguity of words and the difficulty of expressing our intuitions out loud.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
But Perry, with his sharp and scratchy intuitions, had hit upon Dick’s one abiding doubt.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Vocabulary lists containing intuition
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