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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an intuitive manner; by instinctive apprehension: as, to perceive truth intuitively.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an intuitive manner.

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  • adverb Done with skill, but without special training or planning; instinctively.

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  • adverb in an intuitive manner

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Examples

  • On the other hand if we accepted that prosecutorial discretion and mercy are essential aspects of the law public pressure would be applied to prosecutors to show mercy in intuitively unfair cases.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Many of us know this intuitively, which is why we often set exact and difficult career goals.

    How Setting Career Goals Can Backfire Susan Adams 2011

  • Many of us know this intuitively, which is why we often set exact and difficult career goals.

    How Setting Career Goals Can Backfire Susan Adams 2011

  • CONE: ... the key point I would make is that, you know, with as many people wounded, counter-intuitively, that is a concern.

    CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2009 2009

  • In a way, of course, all I'm saying here is something I think any writer, and most readers understand, at least intuitively, which is that place, or location in fiction is never physical, or at least not in any simple sense.

    On Line Opinion - Latest Articles 2010

  • In a way, of course, all I'm saying here is something I think any writer, and most readers understand, at least intuitively, which is that place, or location in fiction is never physical, or at least not in any simple sense.

    On Line Opinion - Latest Articles 2010

  • In a way, of course, all I'm saying here is something I think any writer, and most readers understand, at least intuitively, which is that place, or location in fiction is never physical, or at least not in any simple sense.

    On Line Opinion - Latest Articles 2010

  • That is fine because I am willing to bet that those acculturated into black culture know what it means intuitively "" in other words, they know it through its feeling or feeling in general.

    Serendip's Exchange - 2009

  • Three young vedmochki, where no one brings in their own school, one day suddenly felt intuitively, that is about to be joined by four.

    AvaxHome RSS: duyaloxo 2009

  • In my disappointment over the misogyny, racism and war-mongering being highlighted by the presidential politics played in the mainstream arenas - and in sorrow over being one of so many women finding so seemingly little on which we can agree about ending our oppression - I have stayed away from reading blogs until today, when I felt called intuitively to immerse.

    Women's Space womensspace 2008

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