detect
Usage
What are other ways to say detect?
To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: to learn a language. The verb discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before.
Example Sentences
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These references act like genetic fingerprints that allow researchers to detect specific microbes in other gut samples.
From Science Daily
What remains can now only be detected in mid-infrared light, where it glows at roughly one-tenth of its original intensity.
From Science Daily
AI coding assistants detect errors and recommend improvements, but they didn’t make programs from scratch—until recently.
From Barron's
This makes it possible to identify high-billing Medicaid providers, to track changes in utilization of services over time and to detect outliers in billing patterns.
For the first time, the study explains how one subtype can detect damage from a distance and respond in ways that support recovery.
From Science Daily
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