detect
Usage
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.
Example Sentences
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Published Wednesday morning, Song’s assessment of the trade figures detected a real surge in in December alone when exports rose 6..6%, above the 5.9% for 2025 overall, suggesting an improving trend.
From MarketWatch
Published Wednesday morning, Song’s assessment of the trade figures detected a real surge in in December alone when exports rose 6..6%, above the 5.9% for 2025 overall, suggesting an improving trend.
From MarketWatch
The government said that Wei was aware of what he was doing and got recent training from the Navy on how to detect recruitment efforts from other governments.
From Los Angeles Times
I detected a touch of laughter in my aunt’s manner that first evening at supper as she helped pass the steaming bowls of stew down the line to the other boarders.
From Literature
Rather than a clean, repeating lattice, the atoms form a hybrid and irregular sequence that can only be detected using extremely precise measurement techniques made possible by advanced X-ray lasers.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
