as in inherently
by natural character or ability
he's worked hard to be good at baseball, as he's not intrinsically athletic
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Recent Examples of intrinsically
The company says the design intrinsically suppresses certain forms of errors, reducing the resources required for quantum error correction.
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Andrew Evers,kate Rooney, CNBC, 9 May 2025
While the nation’s national security and global competitiveness are intrinsically tied to an ambitious STEM curriculum, our K-12 students struggle to meet basic math and reading proficiency standards.
—Essence, 8 May 2025
Some Muslims state over 75 percent of EPIC City's housing association fees will finance the local mosque, purposefully deterring non-Muslims from moving in—an intrinsically discriminatory practice.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
The idea of college becomes intrinsically appealing, and kids choose a school that is well-suited to them.
—Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Evers,kate Rooney, CNBC, 9 May 2025
While the nation’s national security and global competitiveness are intrinsically tied to an ambitious STEM curriculum, our K-12 students struggle to meet basic math and reading proficiency standards.
—Essence, 8 May 2025
Some Muslims state over 75 percent of EPIC City's housing association fees will finance the local mosque, purposefully deterring non-Muslims from moving in—an intrinsically discriminatory practice.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
The idea of college becomes intrinsically appealing, and kids choose a school that is well-suited to them.
—Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intrinsically
fundamentally
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Their emergence represents just one facet of a fundamentally changing career landscape.—
Arafat Kabir,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The project will add 50% more space for the permanent exhibition and fundamentally rethink how visitors, especially kids, interact with the hall’s thousands of sapphires, quartz, rubies, emeralds, garnets and diamonds.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
19 May 2025
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“Intrinsically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intrinsically. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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