Thesaurus results for DEDUCED

deduced

verb

past tense of deduce

as in derived

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information I can deduce from the simple observation of your behavior that you're trying to hide something from me

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Recent Examples of deduced Marcellus is way ahead of Tova and Cameron, and has already deduced that the class ring is the key to everything. —

Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026 From that, Clemente deduced that Guthrie was kidnapped by just one person. —

Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 30 Apr. 2026 The internet deduced that was the reason Megan appeared to be crying in a clip from the end of Saturday’s show. —

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026 Law enforcement arrived soon after and deduced the shot must have come from outside, potentially from an area 30 yards away where a firearm-sniffing dog alerted the following day. —

Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026 The spikes in volume didn’t indicate whether the trades were buy or sell orders, but based on how prices moved as they were placed other traders quickly deduced that someone was selling oil futures, a bet on the value of the commodity falling, and buying stock futures, a bet on a market rebound. —

John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 In the ’90s, Kay correctly deduced that the elusive serial killer was Roy McCorckle, a 9-1-1 dispatcher who had answered all of the calls of his future female murder victims. —

Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026 At one, Bailey fully flashed back to the wedding, but the secretary at the parish claimed they were closed for the football season in 2011 (this year was deduced because Bailey’s mother Olivia died in 2012). —

Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2026 While the specific Nike SB tweaks to the Air Max2 CB 94 have not been revealed, some changes can be deduced based on the imagery. —

Riley Jones, Footwear News, 17 Jan. 2026

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Anyone who’s seen enough adaptations knows the difference between one that strives to apprehend the source material and one that feels derived from a Wikipedia summary.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
The material, known as SAM, combines protein sequences derived from mussels, spider silk and amyloids, proteins capable of forming strong fibrous structures.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 May 2026