as in second sight
the power of seeing or knowing about things that are not present to the senses
a filmmaker with a sixth sense for knowing which stories the general public will find irresistible
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The 6-foot-3 guard probably would no longer live in the paint and use his 6-10 wingspan and sixth sense for creating contact to draw fouls.
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Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
The designer’s sixth sense has surely been honed by experience, but perhaps there’s a bit of destiny involved as well.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
Your sixth sense will tell you—even children will know.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 21 July 2023
Bats’ sixth sense Naturalists had long understood that bats must communicate in some way — 18th century Italian scientist Lazarro Spallanzani put an owl and a bat in a completely dark room and found that while the bat flew effortlessly, the owl kept bumping into objects in its flight path.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
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Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
The designer’s sixth sense has surely been honed by experience, but perhaps there’s a bit of destiny involved as well.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
Your sixth sense will tell you—even children will know.
—Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 21 July 2023
Bats’ sixth sense Naturalists had long understood that bats must communicate in some way — 18th century Italian scientist Lazarro Spallanzani put an owl and a bat in a completely dark room and found that while the bat flew effortlessly, the owl kept bumping into objects in its flight path.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
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