deduced

past tense of deduce

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of deduced While specific tech details have yet to be confirmed by New Balance, much can be deduced from the sneaker’s official e-commerce photography. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026 Now that sleuths have deduced exactly where, the city is marking the spot. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deduced
Verb
  • There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The Arrowhead 140 is a general-purpose frigate and its design is derived from Denmark’s Iver Huitfeldt-class warships.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Running has historically been understood as an affordable sport.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
  • But the methodology Benson and her co-authors used to reach those conclusions 21 years ago has not been generally understood.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Likely voters who decided which candidate to support only recently in seven key Senate races favor Republicans despite an overall Democratic advantage, according to a new poll released Sunday night.
    — Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026
  • During a trip to visit one of their company’s labs, the couple decided that the region would be the perfect home to a winery resort.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026

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“Deduced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deduced. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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