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Meanings of instinct in English
Synonyms
Examples for "innate behavior"
Examples for "innate behavior"
1
Migration may not be innate behavior but an evolutionary response to external pressures.
2
The splicing of a single neuronal gene thus specifies essentially all aspects of a complex innate behavior.
3
All animals exhibit innate behaviors that are specified during their development.
4
Habituation is an adaptive learning process that enables animals to adjust innate behaviors to changes in their environment.
Usage of instinct in English
1
Common sense said he didn't need it, but instinct said he did.
2
Others are distinctively social; the gregarious instinct is pronounced in many people.
3
Maybe it's an instinct, a biological need to form a functioning society.
4
Some instinct among the people themselves has told them trouble would result.
5
It's the natural human instinct to want to do so, of course.
6
Obviously, this instinct is a considerable distance short of a thought crime.
7
Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason.
8
Dogs sometimes do the same; and the blood has a similar instinct.
9
Forty-four years later, Manuela, 79, has proof that her instinct was right.
10
But a natural instinct to entertain led him in a different direction.
11
Going longer is the right instinct, Burnett says, but it's not enough.
12
He's not that kind. Yet his heart, his instinct, denied his words.
13
There was a great deal more to this woman than political instinct.
14
That common instinct drives herd animals, predators, wagon trains, and soccer teams.
15
Our instinct, of course, is to stand up and defend his integrity.
16
Saul hurled himself forward, every instinct now concentrating on personal physical survival.
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Instinct through the time
Instinct across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common
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