deduce
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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
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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
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"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
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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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