How to Use intrinsic in a Sentence

intrinsic

adjective
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  • Diboun also spoke about the intrinsic rewards many people gain from endurance events.
    — SELF, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Among the biggest challenges is the intrinsic risk in a business whose customers test the limits of gravity.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Given that context, arguments that crypto has no intrinsic value seem to ring hollow.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Pagah teaches us that awareness of God is crucial to the prayer experience, intrinsic to the very essence of tefillah (prayer).
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Such alignment between the intrinsic and extrinsic purpose may not always be possible.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • That is necessary to drive and sustain intrinsic motivation.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Davis has reorganized his staff, overhauled use-of-force policies and mandated all troopers attend training on intrinsic bias.
    — Jim Mustian, Jake Bleiberg, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The spirit of collaboration flows through the entire production and is intrinsic to the way Ripper works.
    — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The idea of genre as a space to express these things was intrinsic.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 4 July 2020
  • Why is that so important to you and intrinsic to the brand?
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2021
  • For these folks, the phone has become an intrinsic part of their lives.
    — Ryan Knutson, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Simon doesn’t shy away from the intrinsic role that race, class and gender played in the tragedy.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The violence is intrinsic to the sport—a feature of it.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • This is a project that is so intrinsic to Rebel and her Australian roots.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 24 May 2023
  • And the virus does seem to have a lower intrinsic pathogenicity to it.
    — ABC News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Leighton saw value in the whole, not just the intrinsic worth of the materials.
    — Vogue, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In some sense, the number 2 is an intrinsic feature of sphere-ness.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • There’s a view of arms control as an intrinsic good, per se.
    — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Make a list of specific intrinsic goals and work to achieve them.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Mazurenko’s turns of phrase, his patterns of speech—were traits intrinsic to what made him him.
    — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The materials used are intrinsic to the customs of the Far North.
    — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Again, the cap had no intrinsic value and the birds didn’t know of Kabadayi would return with food.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
  • When the stock price equals the strike, the option contract no longer has any intrinsic value.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • These days, patchouli is an intrinsic part of the perfumer’s palette.
    — April Long, Town & Country, 28 July 2019
  • What’s at stake here is not a person’s intrinsic worth, right?
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
  • 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.
    — Maybelle Morgan, refinery29.com, 10 May 2022
  • The intrinsic pleasures of coding or wealth are enough.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2020
  • And people have an intrinsic value in themselves and a need to work.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • On the other hand, there is an intrinsic human need for surprise, innovation, transgression.
    — Adam Clair, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
  • After all, most of us spent our childhoods in more traditional educational settings, attending brick-and-mortar schools, surrounded by other kids daily, and where social interaction was an intrinsic part of our educational experience.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024

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