How to Use deduce in a Sentence

deduce

verb
Definition of deducenext
Synonyms for deducenext
  • I can deduce from the simple observation of your behavior that you're trying to hide something from me.
  • Javed was able to deduce the names of his brother’s friends.
    — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Holmes may deduce the who, what, when, and where, but Watson gives us the why.
    — Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
  • By 1802, scholars could deduce the meaning of the Greek text.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Andrew Granville Which leads to the question of what can and can’t be deduced from it.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • What have the Cowboys said on the record and what can fans deduce from those comments?
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Players have to deduce the role and house of each player to plan their strategies.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • As the kids deduce, even though Eleven closed the gate and the Mind Flayer vacated Will’s body, part of it is still out there in the world.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
  • The two heroes have to deduce who the bigger threat is — Lex Luthor, or each other.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The researchers were able to deduce in a number of ways that the child's body didn't end up in the cave floor by happenstance.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • But there are some things one can deduce from the public statements.
    — Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Then, the researchers trained an AI to study the brain wave patterns and deduce what words the patients were listening to.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2019
  • That does not make the FISC a rubber stamp, as ill-informed critiques deduce.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The resulting bit flips allow the researchers to deduce the values of the secret bits.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 June 2019
  • From this, astronomers deduced that the black hole is spinning clockwise.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • From this, the Israelis deduced where Hamas was sending its money.
    — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The player attempts to deduce a five-letter word by guessing the letters.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The species likely fed on flesh, the researchers deduced based on the configuration of their teeth.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The experts have deduced that there are 80 or 90 other such records, based on the document numbers.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The idea is to eventually deduce the sources of garbage and identify problem areas around the lake.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2021
  • He and a lab supervisor directed light at the side of the tube and then at the surface of the bubble and used the reflected rays of light to deduce the thickness of the film.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Pohl followed the same logic to deduce the proton radius from the Lamb shift of muonic hydrogen in 2010.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But Schapiro quickly deduced that Giuliani had left the voice mail by accident.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
  • But the paper’s bigger goal was to deduce who exactly will be left holding that bag.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 27 May 2022
  • The records include exact counts of the numbers of ash trees, seedlings and saplings, so the researchers were able to deduce which trees had died and how well the plots were recovering over time.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Each recounts the same events in his own manuscript, leaving the reader to deduce what’s real.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The bread appears to be seasoned with spices or with a type of pesto, the archaeologists deduced from the yellowish and ocher dots on the image.
    — Nihi Masih, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
  • To deduce from this that your guests intended to insult you is, indeed, making a big deal out of nothing.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The diagram below shows how the leak works: Attackers who obtain the random numbers can use them to deduce the key.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 June 2020
  • With a full spectral analysis in hand, the team could compare side by side to their 20 candidate sites and deduce that West Woods is the most likely match.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020

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