How to Use intuit in a Sentence

intuit

verb
  • She intuited a connection between the two crimes.
  • He was able to intuit the answer immediately.
  • The best founders will intuit what should exist — not just what can.
    — Bessemer Venture Partners, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At just over a year old, my own daughter already intuits so much.
    — Amber Tamblyn, Time, 12 May 2018
  • Reflect upon a world map to help intuit the best places for moves or visits.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • How is the person able to intuit whether someone will drink or dump water?
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The challenge was intuiting what her life will be like in the future.
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 15 Sep. 2016
  • As Pollan intuits, this practice isn’t all that fun at first.
    — Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Williams worries, notices, intuits, chides and calls out.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Tell us how the Eurasian jay intuits his mate’s state of mind, and what that tells us about bird empathy.
    — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
  • Even if spectators see a bad lie before anyone else, most fans aren’t able to intuit how the odds should change.
    — Danny Funt, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • Any French film buff will easily intuit how this all unfolds.
    — Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Are permitted to intuit in the Talmud of our hearts.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • My spirit is more female, this even my therapist could intuit.
    — Tommy Dorfman, Teen Vogue, 26 June 2018
  • Maybe we’re meant to intuit that Jason’s timing has always sucked.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 8 May 2024
  • The vagaries of the Civil War are also hard to intuit at times.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • And the face is our primary window to intuit the mind of another.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • Like intuiting the next stage of the story, which takes time and is inefficient.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The creators of to-do apps all intuit the challenge of the Zeigarnik effect.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 27 July 2021
  • But, as the women correctly intuited, the pay is high for a reason.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Even Carl seems to intuit just how unalluring this posture can be.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • Fewer than half of the killings have been solved, but Gary intuits that most of these young black male victims were killed by other young black men.
    — Theodore Decker, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Diehard movie fans, the founders seem to intuit, are also famously sensitive and can recoil at change.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This ability to intuit gaps in others’ knowledge is known as theory of mind.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 5 Feb. 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
  • There’s deeper meaning to some of the other imagery in the music video than might first be intuited by viewers.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
  • His victories come from having a brilliant team that can obey and intuit his orders as well as invent and improve ideas on the fly.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2011
  • Not based on anything your faithful puck chronicler has heard, seen, or intuited these last 15 years.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019

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