deductive

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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

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

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 had reached the same conclusion via a process of deductive thought.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd