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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)
  • 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
  • To learn anything, he had to attain it by stealth or through an innate sense of things around him.  (source)
    innate = arising from within
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  • Vittoria's innate intellect and curiosity...  (source)
    innate = inseparable
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    innately = of a quality:  existing as an inseparable part of something greater
  • While never losing the innate ability to fly, he chooses moment-by-moment to remain grounded.  (source)
    innate = existing as an inseparable part of him
  • They innately understand what we do.  (source)
    innately = naturally (from within, not requiring explanation)
  • I'd never seen Carlisle's innate calm so shaken.  (source)
    innate = natural  (present at birth)
  • seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic  (source)
    innately = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable trait
  • But we also have an innate power of reason.  (source)
    innate = present at birth
  • 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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