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 point is that certain kinds of knowledge have long been passed down tacitly from generation to generation, but our culture, with its wild overreliance on the explicit and the useful, will soon produce people on whom such knowledge will be lost.
    Kristen Roupenian, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This latter caper was certainly a more explicit violation of law than anything associated with the Rooney Rule.
    Howard L. Simon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This language is stronger and more categorical than that for strict scrutiny.
    Kevin Cope, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • My own victories over gout are less categorical.
    Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The app offers an intuitive, easy-to-navigate interface with plenty of details for checking progress and learning about different stats.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Infotainment options are requisite for the car’s status and are largely non-intuitive.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Having collaborated with a filmmaker for over thirty years, for whom the language of comedy is so instinctive, is one of the greatest joys of my professional life.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The instinctive Moon lights your 5th House of Games, forming a flowing trine with imaginative Neptune in your 9th House of Journeys.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2026

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“Inductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductive. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.

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