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The Australian state of Victoria has entered a five-day coronavirus lockdown to curb a local outbreak of the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain.

As the signal faded, some telescopes also detected fluctuations in the light.

Now, by detecting the explosions’ infrared light, which penetrates dust better than visible light does, Caltech astronomer Kishalay De and his colleagues have estimated how often these outbursts occur in the Milky Way.

There might be many more, Nesbitt said, as only a small sample of all positive coronavirus tests are sequenced to detect variants.

They mutate and develop new strains, which makes it very difficult to detect them.

No one who lives in an American city requires a flashlight to detect the presence of immigrants or the challenges they face daily.

That could change, however, if ISIS obtained the knowledge to build hard-to-detect bombs.

Testing methods can now detect HIV within ten days of infection.

The company is already brainstorming what it can detect next.

There is only one approved, working test that can detect whether or not Ebola is present in the blood.

Yet I think if we observe closely we shall detect traces of a spontaneous impulse towards self-adornment.

Tubercle bacilli are nearly always present, although animal inoculation may be necessary to detect them.

It is frequently desirable to detect formalin, which is the most common preservative added to cow's milk.

Fetherston strained his eyes towards the horizon, but declared that he could detect nothing.

This she had the wit to detect, as well as the incontrovertible fact that her youth and her chances were gone.

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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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On this page you'll find 88 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detect, such as: catch, disclose, distinguish, encounter, expose, and find.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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