deduced

past tense of deduce

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Recent Examples of deduced Hurts, from the shotgun, read coverages and deduced mismatches through pre-snap decisions. Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Nevertheless, Yu’s parents deduced that Zhou was actually Yu’s romantic partner, and the family collapsed overnight. Jenny S. Li, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deduced
Verb
  • Her compositions aim to depict a feeling rather than something tangible, with a driving force derived from Surrealism and fueled by imagination and a passion for creation.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But conventional carbon fiber production depends heavily on PAN, a synthetic polymer derived from petroleum.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Being understood may feel surprisingly different from being agreed with, and possibly much more useful.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • But board books are understood more clearly to be for a younger audience, often one that can’t read themselves.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Oak Park and Evanston have decided to end their Flock contracts.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
  • After sunsetting their decades-long careers in the aerospace industry, brothers Jerry and Peter Wong decided to add a bit of magic to their lives by working at Disney.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

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“Deduced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduced. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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