deductive
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It’s classic deductive detective work meets Japanese comfort fare.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2025
Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
A mathematician might point to a deductive argument, a scientist to experiments, and a lawyer to courtroom evidence and testimony.
From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2023
Holcomb, as we’ve seen, can’t figure out how Brooks’s grift operated, so he turns to Perry, whose deductive mind he recognizes as superior to his own, for help.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
I tried to do some problems, but after a while it became complicated, I couldn’t remember all the deductive steps, and I stopped.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Vocabulary lists containing deductive
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Divergent
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