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/ɪntjˈuːɪtˌɪvli/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈtuɪtɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtuɪtɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an intuitive manner
inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles
How To Use intuitively In A Sentence
- Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.
- Charles Darwin's core claim is that the apparent design we intuitively observe in nature is an illusion that can be explained by mindless, purposeless, mechanistic and accidental processes.
- I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of elliptical clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.
- Oh, this is by, yeah, the square root-- And so the higher Young's modulus is, the higher the speed of sound is, and that is intuitively sort of pleasing.
- Intuitively, one would expect to find a significant correlation between employee engagement and what a business produces.
- Infinite interconnection is an idea both beguiling and intuitively true, but long displaced by a default fragmentation. June « 2009 « Sentence first
- If anything, from an institutional point of view, Silicon Valley is — counterintuitively — a textbook example of 20th century capitalism.
- Rather than offering didactic explanations for each aesthetic decision, artists may rediscover the value in enigmatic, emotionally-rooted work whose meaning is intuitively derived and not so easily explained. Sharon L. Butler: Abstract Expressionist New York: Line and Legacy
- I love cooking, worked my way through Jamie Oliver's books (and still have no idea what a "nob" of butter is), worship Ruth Reichl, and find myself somehow counter-intuitively glued to the Food Network while at the gym. Sophie Brickman: One Millenial Speaks Out: Why I'm Enrolling in Culinary School
- This is the simplest definition of drought, one that at least intuitively we all have held. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth