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Recent Examples of instinctively
Not Enough Seating—or the Wrong Kind Guests instinctively assess whether a room can comfortably accommodate them.
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Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 14 Jan. 2026
Almost instinctively, Hughes raised his gloved hand to his head, stunned.
—Elise Devlin, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
For years, people could largely trust, at least instinctively, that seeing was believing.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Or to sometimes instinctively mouth the words to Christmas carols the kids sang to him with tears or confusion in their eyes.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
My own choice in favor of surrealism or anti-realism was of that same kind, instinctively.
—Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
But at their first practice sessions with such elite teams, the siblings were intimidated by being on the same ice as the champion couples and instinctively stuck by the boards.
—Alice Park, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
Children sense this instinctively.
—Peter Folan, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2025
Every December, political leaders reach instinctively for the language of goodwill.
—Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 20 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instinctively
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It is organized intuitively—which is to say, by season.—
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This is a rebirth point, emotionally, energetically, and intuitively.—
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Your orchid will essentially drown in these conditions.—
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Leadership also introduced Senate Bill 18, which would require state courts to suppress records of people who’ve changed their names — essentially keeping them private.—
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That's exactly what Cooper Howard is trying to figure out, is here's a character who on his face is fundamentally sort of duplicitous, right?—
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Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government.—
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His initial budget proposal, released last week, basically adopts the current spending plan, with a few tweaks that continue his ideological drift to the right.—
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The Kauffman Stadium outfield walls are coming in about 10 feet in left and right field, and they’re being lowered by about 18 inches basically everywhere.—
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“Instinctively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instinctively. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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