deduce
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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
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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
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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
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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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