innate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with innate, each labelled with its topic.

• Babies track faces within hours of birth, which suggests the preference is innate rather than picked up at home.

  Psychology

• Her sense of where a rebound will fall seems innate, since no drill in practice ever taught it.

  Basketball

• Monarch butterflies navigate to a Mexican forest they have never seen, so the route must be innate.

  Science

• Locke denied that any idea is innate, arguing the mind begins blank and every notion arrives through the senses.

  Philosophy

• Perfect pitch may be partly innate, since it clusters in families and rarely appears in adults who start training late.

  Music

• A weaver bird raised alone still builds the species' knotted nest, so the skill must be innate.

  Environment

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• institution
• summarize
• psychology
• abnormally
• accumulated
• consuming
• variability
• offset
• differentiation
• constituted
• reluctant
• involvement