detect
Usage
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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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This would complement ongoing efforts to detect dark matter in laboratory experiments on Earth, whether through direct detection or particle production, and could help connect cosmic observations with fundamental physics.
From Science Daily
But it doesn’t take much to detect the pride he has in his son, whose work may not reliably pay the bills but has brought public recognition and a sense of redeeming purpose.
From Los Angeles Times
Astronomers have, for the first time, detected radio waves coming from an unusually rare kind of exploding star.
From Science Daily
While observing a repeating FRB roughly 2.5 billion light-years from Earth, researchers detected a unique signal that pointed to the presence of a nearby companion star.
From Science Daily
An autopsy conducted on James' body found evidence "consistent with drowning" but also detected injuries corresponding to dingo bites.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
