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NFL games have replay after replay and you still need tenured MIT scientists to deduce what constitutes a catch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

As we deduce from the phone calls Maxine makes back home, she’s also going through an acrimonious divorce and has trouble connecting with her blasé teenage daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

The WHO was trying to deduce how hantavirus had appeared on the ship, with the first person who died having developed symptoms on April 6.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

It is fair, then, to deduce we are likely to be at the beginning of the end of his trophy-laden tenure in the blue half of Manchester.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

It hadn’t taken long to deduce that “You’re done” meant I was grounded until further notice.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

Then, with what it deduces about an individual's personality, the AI overlays that on top of what advertisers already know about people.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

Then she deduces Heiss must have gotten the parka from Clark and asks where he is.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

When one starts barking orders in Arabic, Sam quickly deduces that he is merely trying to communicate with passengers on a plane that just took off from Dubai.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

But Bron is also, as Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc eventually deduces, an idiot.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

Marie-Laure deduces what she can from the sounds of their shoes: those are small, those weigh a ton, those hardly exist at all.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The game, designed by Japanese artist Kotake Create, drops you into a white-tiled subway corridor that you’ll encounter again and again until the keys to unlock the title escape are deduced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Using details like the number of shadows that fall on each guest’s neck, she deduced features such as the number of light sources the show uses, as well as the 360-degree studio setup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

The analysts split out the ETFs that they deduced retail investors put their money in.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

Several Syrian sources have deduced that out of almost 50 new military roles that have been announced, at least six have gone to foreigners.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024

There were those who deduced that the Egyptians were colonists from ancient China.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

These include age verification tools such as facial age estimation, which must be "robust" in deducing whether a user is over 18.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

He soon reemerged, correctly deducing that there will always be starry-eyed sports fans willing to overlook pervasive failings.

From Slate ● May 29, 2024

Mattel originally conceived of the Dreamhouse for entirely capitalistic reasons, correctly deducing that kids lucky enough to get one would bother their parents to buy more Barbies for the original homeowner to play with.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023

The IRS doesn’t track the race or ethnicity of taxpayers, but researchers used a methodology of deducing race by name and geography.

From Washington Times ● May 15, 2023

Am I right in deducing that these charges were incurred by you?

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood