All 5 Uses
intuition
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- The intuitive brilliance he'd shown in childhood now focused acutely on the inner subtleties and structures of Marine life.†
Chpt 4. *intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- A surgeon who later served on Iwo Jima wrote a memoir that included a passage suggesting how rare were Mike's and Harlon's intuitions that they were going to be killed: As I slowly headed back north in my jeep, one of the frequently used war slogans came to mind.†
Chpt 4.
- "As the bus pulled out," she recalled sadly many years later, "I had the strong intuitive feeling that Harlon was right and I would never see my little brother again."†
Chpt 5.intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- I guess," Pauline concluded, "it was woman's intuition."†
Chpt 15.intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- Her intuition must have been remarkable, because Rene is almost completely obscured in the photo.†
Chpt 15.
Definitions:
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(1)
(intuition) something known based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning; or the ability to know things in such a manner
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)