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deduce

[dih-doos, -dyoos] / dɪˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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Those who trust these writers’ capabilities with using comic book properties as springboards to examine thornier issues can probably deduce that “Lanterns” is employing it for a specific reason.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

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

This gives scientists a brief chance to measure how the more stable elements decay, then deduce the properties of the original particle.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

Vishniac believed that the experimental techniques previously used to deduce no indigenous microbes in Antarctica were flawed.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

This kind of wearable device uses green light to detect blood flow beneath your skin and deduces your heart rate.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2022

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

"We've kind of deduced it to be UVC radiation, the radiation that exists above the ozone layer because obviously there's no filter up there", he says.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

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

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

From MarketWatch Dec. 4, 2025

On the subject of lyricism, as may be deduced by now, it was a largely disappointing year for new musicals—but not for musical-theater performances.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

Jeremiah had never shown much interest in the outcomes of the older boys’ games, so Luma rightly deduced that Mandela was putting his younger brother up to the calls.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

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




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