inductive

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Recent Examples of inductive Magnetic inductive systems – tested in France, Sweden, and the US – have proven scalable for highways and urban corridors. Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025 Using a traditional electronic device cord, the owner plugs an inductive charging plate into an outlet. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025 Porsche will publicly unveil its inductive charging system at the IAA Mobility Show next week in Munich on Thursday. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025 Kirk and Destiny relish this kind of hyperemotional reaction; by appealing to anything other than cold inductive reasoning, opponents effectively concede their argument. Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inductive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inductive
Adjective
  • For people with chronic inducible hives, specialists will provide more information on how to avoid and mitigate those triggers.
    Zia Sherrell, Health, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists adapted this process into the auxin-inducible degron, or AID, system.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Or, at least, the non-explicit words in Bodak Yellow.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • The expansion was explicit about its intentions.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
Adjective
  • The star-nosed mole’s speed is an adaptation for the act of recognition itself — for making correct categorical decisions, in the dark, at the physical limit of neural transmission.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The measure passed Wednesday stops short of a categorical ban that some have sought, but was still met with cautious optimism by traffic safety reformers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • Today’s mothers are expected to be both hyperrational project managers — scheduling enrichment, monitoring nutrition, tracking developmental milestones — and deeply intuitive caregivers, continuously consulting their emotional compass for guidance about their children and themselves.
    Nina Bandelj, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • Unlike Skeletor, Evil-Lyn is smarter and uses her intuitive wits to get her way.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Adjective
  • Jacques Chirac was famous for his warmth, appetite and instinctive connection with crowds.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • That sense of responsibility, quiet, enduring, almost instinctive, runs through Giglio in ways that are hard to name but easy to recognize.
    Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

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“Inductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductive. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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