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
Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 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
Holcomb, as we’ve seen, can’t figure out how Brooks’s grift operated, so he turns to Perry, whose deductive mind he recognizes as superior to his own, for help.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
I decided to use some of Mr. Hartsfield’s deductive reasoning.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
