deductive
Example Sentences
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Then again, those New Year’s Eve revelers may have had their powers of basic detection and deductive reasoning sharpened by being led astray by AI slop.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026
For her part, Patience tells Bea, “Your deductive leaps of logic can be haphazard and your notes are cursory,” but she admires her clearance rate, the best in the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
Instead of receiving science through set experiments with known outcomes, students should learn to apply deductive and inductive reasoning to weigh information before blindly accepting results.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was deductive.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
