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innate
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    Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power.  (source)
    innate = inherent (coming from within her; something that had become an inseparable part of her)
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    The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication--on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.  (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth
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    But we also have an innate power of reason.  (source)
    innate = present at birth
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    To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God. For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest...  (source)
    innate = of a quality:  existing as an inseparable part of something greater
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    There was something innately strange about it, as though there had always been an inner core to the gym which I had never perceived before, quite different from its generally accepted appearance.  (source)
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    Her father had a way of undermining his sister's lectures on the innate superiority of any given Finch:  (source)
    innate = natural born (present at birth)
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    The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now--not being able to walk ... waking up some mornings wanting to cry--there is nothing innately embarrassing or shaming about them.  (source)
    innately = naturally
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    Such is the innate politeness of the Olinka that they rushed about preparing food for them, though precious little is left, since many of the gardens that flourish at this time of the year have been destroyed.  (source)
    innate = existing as an inseparable part of her
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    seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic  (source)
    innately = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable trait
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    I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.  (source)
    innate = inner and inseparable
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    They innately understand what we do.  (source)
    innately = naturally (from within, not requiring explanation)
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    And Redd would have been queen--she would have ruled with all the innate power she possessed--if not for the presumption of her sister.  (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired
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    Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable characteristics.  (source)
    innately = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of something greater
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