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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The facility is protected by air defenses, but they failed to detect the drone, and no sirens sounded to warn soldiers to take cover, according to one of the officials.
Such circuits could include miniature interferometers capable of detecting extremely small electromagnetic fields, opening new possibilities for precision sensing technologies.
From Science Daily
The authors were able to detect biological stress in the bacteria by reading out which genes were expressed at varying pressures.
From Science Daily
The team identified the ancient drying event by detecting a noticeable gap in sediment deposits from some of the island's oldest lakes.
From Science Daily
If the mammogram detected anything of concern, they’d map out a treatment plan from there.
From Los Angeles Times
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