INTUITED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

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 Or the way his hips flip to the exact angle his brain intuited. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025 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 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 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 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 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

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It isn't completely understood how ibogaine works, but scientists know ibogaine affects the brain’s reward and pleasure system.

— Gavin Escott, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Security is now understood as a personal risk structure, not merely a job title.

— Henrik Totterman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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Filming wrapped in May 2025, and as early as the fall of that year, the studio and Gillespie knew the movie wasn’t working.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
At that point, Bobrovsky knew his seven-season run in South Florida, one that included winning a pair of Stanley Cups, was over.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026

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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

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Since the inaugural Hall of Fame class in 1966, the ABCA has recognized more than 350 individuals with induction.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
Comcast also recognized value in theme parks and invested heavily, building Universal Studios as a formidable rival to Disney.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of recognized

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In second grade, Hung completed a yearlong math class in three months and grasped pre-algebra in third grade, said Choi, a longtime tutor who began teaching her son during the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 29 June 2026
The drive to define the face as a data point, something to be grasped and controlled, underpins the bureaucracy of the modern nation-state, in which faces are surveyed, categorized, and stored in digital banks.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Definition of grasped

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The rabbits, however, divided their forces and swarmed both flanks of the coach (a move Napoleon surely could have appreciated).

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Caparelli-Ruff said the office appreciated working with the County Board to receive bipartisan support for school safety improvements.

— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026

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