How to Use intrinsic in a Sentence
intrinsic
adjective
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The idea of genre as a space to express these things was intrinsic.
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Emma Grey Ellis,
Wired,
4 July 2020
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Why is that so important to you and intrinsic to the brand?
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Kerry Pieri,
Harper's BAZAAR,
26 May 2021
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And the virus does seem to have a lower intrinsic pathogenicity to it.
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ABC News,
2 Jan. 2022
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For these folks, the phone has become an intrinsic part of their lives.
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Ryan Knutson,
WSJ,
20 Feb. 2017
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The violence is intrinsic to the sport—a feature of it.
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Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2023
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Make a list of specific intrinsic goals and work to achieve them.
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Arthur C. Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2021
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The intrinsic pleasures of coding or wealth are enough.
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Alexis C. Madrigal,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2020
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Leighton saw value in the whole, not just the intrinsic worth of the materials.
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Vogue,
29 Mar. 2018
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Simon doesn’t shy away from the intrinsic role that race, class and gender played in the tragedy.
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Anna Diamond,
Smithsonian,
8 Sep. 2017
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And people have an intrinsic value in themselves and a need to work.
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Fox News,
18 July 2018
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There’s a view of arms control as an intrinsic good, per se.
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W.j. Hennigan,
Time,
1 Feb. 2018
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The intrinsic value of firearms may not be obvious to most.
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Steve Meyer,
Anchorage Daily News,
23 Oct. 2019
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For the votes of a majority have no intrinsic bearing on the conduct of a school.
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Walter Lippmann,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Apr. 2020
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These days, patchouli is an intrinsic part of the perfumer’s palette.
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April Long,
Town & Country,
28 July 2019
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The stars’ light waxes and wanes at a rate that signals their intrinsic brightness.
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Joshua Sokol,
Science | AAAS,
19 July 2019
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There was a time when such extravagance was intrinsic to the faith.
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New York Times,
18 May 2018
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What has happened here is not about your intrinsic worth (or hers).
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Shon Faye,
Vogue,
20 Sep. 2023
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What’s at stake here is not a person’s intrinsic worth, right?
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Ezra Klein,
Vox,
9 Apr. 2018
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The doughnut shape seems to be intrinsic to how grid cells represent space.
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Kelsey Houston-Edwards,
Scientific American,
21 Sep. 2022
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This is a project that is so intrinsic to Rebel and her Australian roots.
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Manori Ravindran,
Variety,
24 May 2023
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But an intrinsic part of me was mutated in ways that can’t be reversed.
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New York Times,
21 Oct. 2021
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Yes, over the long term, the intrinsic value of healthy and growing companies will grow.
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Dallas News,
30 May 2021
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Mazurenko’s turns of phrase, his patterns of speech—were traits intrinsic to what made him him.
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Mike Murphy,
Quartz,
29 Aug. 2019
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What happens when the connection that is so intrinsic to us as a species becomes taboo?
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Ryleigh McCoy |contributing Writer,
NOLA.com,
31 Jan. 2021
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The game has to stand on its own as its own brand of basketball with an intrinsic value aside from just the hoopla of March.
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Christopher L. Gasper,
BostonGlobe.com,
18 Feb. 2023
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Storytelling on fabric was intrinsic to the charm of toile.
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New York Times,
25 Mar. 2022
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Secrecy is intrinsic to the job description—for a hedge is a wall.
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Frederick Kaufman,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2021
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At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the freedom to control one's body is intrinsic to controlling one's life.
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Maybelle Morgan,
refinery29.com,
10 May 2022
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That desire to transform what is into what could be is intrinsic to her way of working.
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Aruna D’souza,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2022
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Wearing a bra felt like going against some intrinsic part of myself.
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Rachel Charlene Lewis,
SELF,
31 Mar. 2018
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