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.
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“You can connect to the pipe and listen and detect where potentially you have a leak because there’s water flowing,” Collins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
OpenAI's account of the events also suggests the startup did not detect the breach early enough to address it or to warn Hugging Face.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, said the parasite can be "really hard to detect".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Many big investment firms have developed automated systems to monitor Truth Social, detect important keywords and take action—often within a fraction of a second—such as initiating or canceling positions, traders said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“I had the best seat in the house from which to detect boats,” he later explained, “if there were any.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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These measurements can reflect how the nervous system detects and processes painful signals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The team at JPMorgan detects telltale signs of caution and reduced leverage in options and margin trading.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
In fact, studies suggest that around 10% receive a shock from their device after it detects an abnormal heart rhythm.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
If a retailer’s algorithm detects that you have been browsing a product without buying, it may send you a coupon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
He detects patterns: one track is waffled, another has fine lines, and another is shaped like the pointed toe of a boot.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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After it detected the intrusion, Hugging Face tried using Anthropic models—including Fable 5 and its earlier Opus model—to analyze its logs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Those observations detected water vapor and methane, adding further evidence that the object was a planet and revealing more details about its atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
During the adoption process they had submitted to numerous checks from the Singaporean government which, they said, should have detected the trafficking.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Like HSBC, though, Abouhossein thinks many of the positive trends detected in the U.S. are applicable in Europe too.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
He detected that the date initially typed on the document had said “June,” and that someone had then carefully rubbed out the u and the e.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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I’ve thought about whether AI could eventually play a role of a central banker, detecting bubbles or risk buildup that humans might miss.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The EU said AliExpress' "overestimated the effectiveness of its system in detecting and removing illegal products".
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Kalshi, the online prediction marketplace, referred Santos to the Department of Justice after detecting suspicious trades made by him ahead of Trump’s Feb. 24 speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"This isn't like detecting a needle in a haystack. It's like detecting a microscopic portion of a needle in a haystack," said Steven Manderach, executive director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Because you police departments can’t do an adequate job in the simple matter of detecting the minuscule number of Nexus-6s who balk—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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