deduce
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Don’t waste one brain cell trying to deduce the assassin.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
The WHO was trying to deduce how hantavirus had appeared on the ship, with the first person who died having developed symptoms on April 6.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
His tales of Sherlock Holmes didn’t always present enough clues for readers—who could hardly be expected to compete with the brilliant detective—to deduce the solution on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The host was primed, based on his own observations, to deduce that something highly suspicious was going on.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2025
Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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