deduced

past tense of deduce

Example Sentences

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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
  • The earnings are derived predominantly from salary and bonuses, with off-field income representing only 16% of the total.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Vasquez said Mitra9’s products are made with botanical kratom extract derived from the natural leaf, and not with isolated or synthetic 7-OH.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • However, its more fundamental influence on biology has remained poorly understood, researchers say.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The arrival ceremony suggested that others understood the communicative potential of clothes at such an event, too.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For Cazares, and many who decided to fight their cases, detainment represented the beginning of the effort to gain legal status.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Just in time for fall, though, the Rhode beauty mogul seems to have decided her hair can handle a seasonal transformation.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026

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“Deduced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduced. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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