deductive

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It’s classic deductive detective work meets Japanese comfort fare.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2025

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

A mathematician might point to a deductive argument, a scientist to experiments, and a lawyer to courtroom evidence and testimony.

From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 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

Aristotle believed that knowledge, including natural philosophy, should be fundamentally deductive in character.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton