deductive

Example Sentences

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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

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

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was deductive.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

Maybe Petey was being extremely responsible, though Otto’s deductive mind considered that unlikely.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles