instinctively

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instinctively
Adverb
  • Hopefully Jenn realizes that besides the UCLA road game last season which is essentially a home game that the team went 0-4 in road games.
    Antonio Morales, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Back in the outside world, Devon (Jen Tullock) questions why Ricken (Michael Chernus) is essentially writing Lumon propaganda, and Outie Irving formally connects with Outie Burt (Christopher Walken).
    Matt Minton, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • There was no talk of abandoning or fundamentally restructuring NATO and the European security system.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Trump's position has been known for months, and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's announcements Wednesday did not fundamentally change it.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The ring was spotted by the European Space Agency's Euclid mission around the galaxy NGC 6505 in the constellation Draco, which lies roughly 590 million light-years from Earth—basically in our backyard, cosmically speaking.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • This film was really made in general through basically no money.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
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