deductive
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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
“It’s mastered the style of being linguistically human, but it doesn’t have explicit programming to do exactly the things that computers have so far been very good at, which is very recipelike, deductive logic.”
From Scientific American ● May 25, 2023
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was deductive.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Maybe Petey was being extremely responsible, though Otto’s deductive mind considered that unlikely.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Vocabulary lists containing deductive
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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