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The WHO was trying to deduce how hantavirus had appeared on the ship, with the first person who died having developed symptoms on April 6.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

As one might deduce, “Young Sherlock” is fun enough, though for reasons visual rather than strictly narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

It is fair, then, to deduce we are likely to be at the beginning of the end of his trophy-laden tenure in the blue half of Manchester.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

The host was primed, based on his own observations, to deduce that something highly suspicious was going on.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2025

Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But Igor isn’t just adept at sniffing out truffles — he quickly deduces that she’s emotionally lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

When one starts barking orders in Arabic, Sam quickly deduces that he is merely trying to communicate with passengers on a plane that just took off from Dubai.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

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

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

Several Syrian sources have deduced that out of almost 50 new military roles that have been announced, at least six have gone to foreigners.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024

Ury deduced that Mastin had had some experiences in her past that had caused her to put up walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

Scholars deduced that the Sungir mammoth-hunters lived in a hierarchical society, and that the dead man was perhaps the leader of a band or of an entire tribe comprising several bands.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

“It’s like deducing the properties of unobserved dark matter by looking at its gravitational effects.”

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022

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

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood