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
  • The spirit of protest here is contextual rather than explicit, evoking an exhaustion similar to the darkness Bruce Springsteen captured in Nebraska as Vietnam drifted into the Reagan era.
    Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That’s explicit in the first episode, when Hari dies for a formatting error.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Jackson is categorical in his own defense.
    Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • The e-bike’s torque sensor made the ride exceptionally intuitive, ensuring that the power delivered by the 250W rear-hub motor was tuned to match the downward force exerted on the pedals.
    Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Until withholding is made simpler and more intuitive, taxpayers must approach withholding as year-round tax planning, not an April afterthought.
    Sakinah Tillman, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, virtual modeling and, albeit to a lesser extent, humanoid robotics are slowly breaking through the uncanny valley — our instinctive distrust of things that look and act almost like human beings but not quite.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Both phenomena act on humanity's instinctive reaction to celestial phenomena.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026

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“Inductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductive. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.

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