deduced

past tense of deduce

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Recent Examples of deduced The pressure drop was deduced from the light curves, which show how the star's brightness changed with time during an occultation. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026 No blueprints or detailed descriptions of either ship survive, but historians have deduced much about them from tax records and logbooks. Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 The website Deuxmoi apparently has deduced that the dog’s name is Wendy. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026 And both the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force can be deduced using a standard technique. Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2026 In other words, there’s not much to be deduced here, unlike the extensive notes which accompanied the release of AirPods Pro 3 last fall. David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026 While Nike itself has yet to elaborate much on the changes made from the typical Air Force 1 ’07 that’s been the model’s standard for a decade-plus, much can be deduced from the images alone. Riley Jones, Footwear News, 18 June 2026 Eagle-eyed TikTokers quickly deduced that Franco's new account is only following two others — the official account for an upcoming film titled Love Meets in the Sunshine and Christian Guiton, the film's director. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026 Our blind taste test deduced which flavored fizzes bubbled up to the top. Emily Heil, Washington Post, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deduced
Verb
  • Players ruthlessly compete for victory points derived from controlling systems, building specific structures, discovering artifacts, and researching scientific innovations.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Which is how Frankie and Molly find themselves in possession of some seriously heady psychedelics derived from deep sea squid testes.
    Katie Walsh, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • White began wondering whether stories like Phillips’ could be understood as their own declarations of independence.
    Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
  • And for anyone who dates a widow or widower, Kloots explained that reality needs to be understood from the start.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The merch was originally made for OpenAI employees to purchase on an internal site, but the team decided to make a small capsule collection available to the public.
    T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • At the time, Valli’s rep told Variety in a statement that the musician decided to cancel the shows instead of rescheduling them so that his fans with tickets would not be stuck in limbo.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026

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“Deduced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduced. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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