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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inductive
Adjective
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Scientists adapted this process into the auxin-inducible degron, or AID, system.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Dec. 2025
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The team directly compared the DNA of inducible (active) and non-inducible (dormant) viruses to see whether dormant ones might someday reawaken.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2025
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While the researchers don’t know for sure why speed training showed a benefit while the other forms did not, one possibility lies in the difference between implicit and explicit learning.—
Akshay Syal,
NBC news,
9 Feb. 2026
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Wuthering Heights has the tunnel-vision horniness and girlish aesthetic sensibility of a high-school freshman who’s been assigned to read Brontë in class while tearing through a pile of explicit bodice-rippers under the covers at home.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
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Working with the Materias, a researcher could follow the trail of a subject through history, philosophy, theology, poetry, the Bible, whatever — freely across categorical distinctions such as author and genre.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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Once a senior official declares something with categorical certainty, the system can feel pressure – sometimes subtle, sometimes overt – to validate the headline.—
Brian O'Neill,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2026
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This kind of feedback may make human–robot interaction feel more intuitive.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Feb. 2026
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Franco and Proni kept the circulation intuitive, resisting any intervention that might interrupt the architecture’s original flow.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
8 Feb. 2026
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There is, however, something hopeful about the current generation’s instinctive grasp of the significance of 2016.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2026
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Yet their emergent/instinctive choices about when to engage AI and how much authority to give it produced fundamentally different collaboration dynamics.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Inductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductive. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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