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deduce

[dih-doos, -dyoos] / dɪˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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Those who trust these writers’ capabilities with using comic book properties as springboards to examine thornier issues can probably deduce that “Lanterns” is employing it for a specific reason.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

As we deduce from the phone calls Maxine makes back home, she’s also going through an acrimonious divorce and has trouble connecting with her blasé teenage daughter.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

This gives scientists a brief chance to measure how the more stable elements decay, then deduce the properties of the original particle.

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

The detective and his team deduce that the plotters likely include government and industry officials in Canada and the U.S., as well as organized-crime figures and even members of the Quebec police force.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

Not that pinpointing another Book Scavenger user was an easy thing to deduce, even in the smallest and quietest of schools.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Then, with what it deduces about an individual's personality, the AI overlays that on top of what advertisers already know about people.

From BBC Nov. 13, 2025

Then she deduces Heiss must have gotten the parka from Clark and asks where he is.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2024

But Bron is also, as Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc eventually deduces, an idiot.

From Seattle Times Mar. 7, 2023

He looks around and deduces that, in this very moment, he’s a character in a play that’s currently being written by Gunderson.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2021

Because he saw that Major Rathbone’s wounds were caused by a knife, and because he hadn’t heard any gunshots during the performance, Leale deduces that Lincoln was stabbed.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Barclays deduced that the prediction markets with the most liquidity were able to provide valuable insights that can be compared to other available data.

From MarketWatch May 1, 2026

"We've kind of deduced it to be UVC radiation, the radiation that exists above the ozone layer because obviously there's no filter up there", he says.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

On the subject of lyricism, as may be deduced by now, it was a largely disappointing year for new musicals—but not for musical-theater performances.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

He confidently illustrates what he’s deduced by drawing a grid on a whiteboard and yammering as his suspects and colleagues watch, slack-jawed.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2025

From all of these things, Harry deduced that Ginny, and probably Neville and Luna along with her, had been doing their best to continue Dumbledore’s Army.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

These include age verification tools such as facial age estimation, which must be "robust" in deducing whether a user is over 18.

From BBC Nov. 20, 2025

Their system is becoming increasingly capable of deducing what is and is not alert-worthy on its own by using context clues, he said.

From Slate Dec. 11, 2023

Mattel originally conceived of the Dreamhouse for entirely capitalistic reasons, correctly deducing that kids lucky enough to get one would bother their parents to buy more Barbies for the original homeowner to play with.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2023

The IRS doesn’t track the race or ethnicity of taxpayers, but researchers used a methodology of deducing race by name and geography.

From Washington Times May 15, 2023

Am I right in deducing that these charges were incurred by you?

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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