intuited

verb

past tense of intuit
as in understood
to have a clear idea of an imaginative genius like Shakespeare could intuit the thoughts, feelings, and motives of a vast array of characters

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Recent Examples of intuited Is there a chance the markets collectively intuited that this could prove to be the last-ever oil shock? — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 June 2026 The Knicks understood when to hold back and intuited when to become aggressive. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 May 2026 And yet, as a prophet of capitalism, in the regimented ballet of the pin-makers Smith intuited Henry Ford’s assembly line, of how the entire world would become subservient to manufacturing and finance. — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026 British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, who took part in a peyote ceremony with a First Nations group the Red Pheasant Band in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1956, intuited the necessity of community, empathy, and ego renunciation during the psychedelic process. — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026 Advertisement The leaders of the communist and Nazi parties—both hostile to Germany’s democratic institutions, albeit for different reasons—understood, or intuited, that political violence could erode democracy itself. — Time, 23 Oct. 2025 Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers. — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025 Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intuited
  1. understood
  2. knew
  3. deciphered
  4. recognized
  5. comprehended
  6. grasped
  7. saw
  8. appreciated
Verb
  • Thomas Jefferson, that most infuriatingly complex of our nation’s founders, understood this.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 July 2026
  • Manufacturers often continue specifying virgin materials because their performance is well understood, while comparable data for recycled alternatives remain limited.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
Definition of understood
Verb
  • The suit alleges those employees knew the warehouse constructed on the property in 2022 would be used for fireworks storage and operations but did not enforce applicable safety and environmental requirements.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
  • When the requests started piling up into the 100s, Vraa knew he on to something.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Definition of knew
Verb
  • Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • The signature was deciphered with the help of AI, and specialists at auction house Lyon & Turnbull were able to confirm that Cadell was the artist.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
Definition of deciphered
Verb
  • The free festival blends nationally recognized performers, local artists, youth musicians, international food, art and community activities into a celebration of the people and traditions that have shaped American music.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
  • Anthropic said the earliest incident of its models breaching another organization was from April, and that none of the organizations recognized they had been hacked.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
Definition of recognized
Verb
  • The frames keep changing regardless of how much the viewer has noticed or comprehended.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • The company expects a little more of an impact in its Q2, but Cook said it’s fully comprehended in the above Street outlook of 48% to 49%.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
Definition of comprehended
Verb
  • Iowa saw improvement, too, once Gronowski grasped the nuance of the offense around the midpoint of the season.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Perhaps the problem of art in the time of climate change is not that its subjects are too immense to be grasped.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of grasped
Verb
  • In the book, Covey tells the story of a man relentlessly sawing down a tree.
    — Tony Gambill, Forbes.com, 2 June 2026
  • Jordan Walker, sawed off by a 96 mph sinker, lined out softly.
    — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of saw
Verb
  • The hotel’s free shuttle service—to and from the Jetport, and around the city—is also appreciated.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
  • Our older generations want to know that their belongings will be appreciated.
    — Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2026
Definition of appreciated

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