Inborn
adjective
Something that you have naturally from the time when you were born.
She has an inborn talent for music.
Often appears as...
- inborn talent
- inborn ability
adjective
Something that you have naturally from the time when you were born.
She has an inborn talent for music.
Often appears as...
- inborn talent
- inborn ability
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Pro Tip 1/3Biological Traits
Use 'inborn' when referring to characteristics decided by genetics, like eye color.
His inborn blue eyes came from his mother's side of the family.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Learning
Use 'inborn' for skills or tendencies not acquired through learning or experience.
The baby's inborn instinct to grasp objects is fascinating.
Pro Tip 3/3Personality Attributes
'Inborn' is also used for innate aspects of someone's personality, like shyness.
She showed an inborn shyness even as a small child.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Traits
Use 'inborn' when referring to characteristics decided by genetics, like eye color.
His inborn blue eyes came from his mother's side of the family.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Learning
Use 'inborn' for skills or tendencies not acquired through learning or experience.
The baby's inborn instinct to grasp objects is fascinating.
Pro Tip 3/3Personality Attributes
'Inborn' is also used for innate aspects of someone's personality, like shyness.
She showed an inborn shyness even as a small child.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Traits
Use 'inborn' when referring to characteristics decided by genetics, like eye color.
His inborn blue eyes came from his mother's side of the family.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Learning
Use 'inborn' for skills or tendencies not acquired through learning or experience.
The baby's inborn instinct to grasp objects is fascinating.
Pro Tip 3/3Personality Attributes
'Inborn' is also used for innate aspects of someone's personality, like shyness.
She showed an inborn shyness even as a small child.
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How mRNA Medicine Will...
Therefore, they have lifelong complications due to inborn metabolic errors. Let's take just one of those. Let's talk about von Gierke's disease or glycogen storage disease I. This is due to the lack of a protein circled here in red,
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Why are some people...
It can be predicted even before birth based on the fetus' position in the womb. So, if handedness is inborn, does that mean it's genetic? Well, yes and no. Identical twins, who have the same genes, can have different dominant hands.
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What's Wrong with These...
Predators react to movement. If their quarry plays dead, the killer instinct is suppressed It's this inborn defence that's triggered when people hypnotise animals.
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How mRNA Medicine Will...
Therefore, they have lifelong complications due to inborn metabolic errors. Let's take just one of those. Let's talk about von Gierke's disease or glycogen storage disease I. This is due to the lack of a protein circled here in red,
Video examples
Why are some people...
It can be predicted even before birth based on the fetus' position in the womb. So, if handedness is inborn, does that mean it's genetic? Well, yes and no. Identical twins, who have the same genes, can have different dominant hands.
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What's Wrong with These...
Predators react to movement. If their quarry plays dead, the killer instinct is suppressed It's this inborn defence that's triggered when people hypnotise animals.
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David Deutsch
Scientist
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
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Johnny Lever
Indian Actor
A person who is a comedian does comedy in real life, too. But then there are others, too, who are very good in real life, but can't perform in front of the camera. They get nervous. Nevertheless, an inborn comedian does comedy whether he is in films or not.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
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Rosie O'Donnell
American Comedian
I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.
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Mike Thompson
American Politician
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
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Gulzar
Indian Poet
Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.
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Laurie Colwin
American Author
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.
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Bruno Rossi
Italian Scientist
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
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Yvonne De Carlo
Canadian Actress
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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David Deutsch
Scientist
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
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Johnny Lever
Indian Actor
A person who is a comedian does comedy in real life, too. But then there are others, too, who are very good in real life, but can't perform in front of the camera. They get nervous. Nevertheless, an inborn comedian does comedy whether he is in films or not.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
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Rosie O'Donnell
American Comedian
I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.
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Mike Thompson
American Politician
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
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Gulzar
Indian Poet
Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.
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Laurie Colwin
American Author
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.
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Bruno Rossi
Italian Scientist
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.
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Yvonne De Carlo
Canadian Actress
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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