How to Use deductive in a Sentence

deductive

adjective

• Both of those trains of thought still use deductive reasoning, even if not accurate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
  — Mary McNamara, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2025
• A lot of people in the banking industry who’ve seen that study continue to latch on to this very deductive approach.
  — Adam Blue, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• Challenge cards include clues, and players have to use their deductive reasoning to figure out which suspect did the deed.
  — Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 17 Nov. 2022
• But the vagueness of the allegations so far leads only to questions and a confusing deductive trail.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2021
• The corresponding solution would then consist of the steps that led the deductive algorithm to it.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
• Now, Enola and her deductive skills are back, this time facing a conspiracy that could prove to be her most dangerous case yet.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Reason, meanwhile, means inquiry that draws on logic and deductive reasoning.
  — Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
• Many are deductive in reasoning, using logic to ask, challenge, probe, and analyze.
  — Ronald C. White, Time, 10 June 2021
• The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
  — John Wogan Hasisi Park, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• In doing so, the AI gives the deductive algorithm new information to work with.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
• Many audiences—in a business meeting, for example—are of course composed of both inductive and deductive thinkers.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• Games like Wordle can sharpen our deductive reasoning skills, Lightfoot adds.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Teach the difference between deductive, inductive and abductive thinking and the proper use of all three.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Medicine is moving inexorably away from the deductive arts, becoming more technology- and test-dependent and less patient-centric.
  — Eric Snoey, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• While most patients never pay the full cost of drugs out of pocket, people who are uninsured and those with high-deductive plans may have trouble accessing these therapies.
  — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
• The flock attentively listened to the rules of crime solving from George’s books and put all that deductive reasoning to work when George is found dead.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
• As Jersey Lily begins, Holmes is desperate for a challenge worthy of his deductive gifts.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
• Ages 3+ Sharpen their deductive reasoning skills by asking them to assume the role of detective and solve the mysteries in this book.
  — Good Housekeeping, 4 Dec. 2022
• The latter reinforced this perspective and produced a taste for informal models that were deductive and rigorous.
  — Robert Art, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2013
• Solving them in real life can require knowledge and skills in deductive reasoning, psychology, and forensic science.
  — Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2020
• Ergo, the rise of cladistic techniques which replaced intuition with a more formal hypothetico-deductive framework.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2010
• Readers are in store for plenty of surprises, until the laurel of deductive success is awarded to Detective Galileo.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• The language should be deductive, based on specific facts and information, not inductive, or trying to draw conclusions or explain what happened.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• But if deductive reasoning is not enough to sway you, there's also the fact that a Republican is occasionally impolitic enough to admit the chicanery outright.
  — Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• In cases of viruses that are aimed at specific targets, or serial virus writers, deductive profiling can be useful in tracking down the virus creator, Gordon said.
  — Michelle Delio, WIRED, 29 May 2001
• There is an abundance of deductive speculation among Gamache and his team, and the brainstorming continues even after the suspects are gathered for a final confrontation.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
• The winning never changes, but the shifting story lines, personnel evaluations, and roster rationalizations will leave you with deductive whiplash.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• The emphasis in convergent thinking is on analytical and deductive reasoning, such as that measured in IQ tests.
  — David Pearson, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2016
• My colleague Ethan Siegel very ably explains Batygin and Brown’s gravitational deductive process here; the research paper is here.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2016