as in fundamentally
by natural character or ability
the judge's observation that women are not inherently better at parenting than men
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inherently
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And so my attitude on this is, this is not fundamentally about free speech.—
Catherine E. Shoichet,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025 -
But, with some recent exceptions, these traditionalist Jews would not dream of using the language for literary fiction, which is a fundamentally modern and secular genre.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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This is particularly strange because the episode about the ’60s and ’70s touches on other issues of the day—Vietnam, civil rights, social unrest—but makes no mention of NOW’s involvement in the Little League legal battle, which would seem to fit in fairly naturally.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2025
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These elusive hoofed mammals are widely considered to be calm and gentle, naturally inclined to run and hide when face-to-face with danger.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Tweaking the profile reduced this effect, but Audio-to-Haptics mode is intrinsically linked to all sounds from your system.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
15 Mar. 2025
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These pixels aren’t intrinsically able to differentiate color, though.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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And, for the record, my muscles were basically non-existent.—
Lorena Meouchi,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
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One of these absolutes is that idea that having walkable cities or towns means no cars, fewer cars, extra taxes or tolls on cars—basically any notion that feels like a punishment to car drivers.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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That game also took out more than 100 brackets in Yahoo Sports’ Men’s Bracket Mayhem, leaving 81 perfect brackets, essentially down to 0%.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
22 Mar. 2025
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Kennedy has pushed good nutrition and vitamin A supplementation as viable solutions to the Texas outbreak—suggesting, essentially, that the country’s approach to the disease should be to try to limit the damage of infections rather than prevent them.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Inherently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inherently. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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