inductive

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Recent Examples of inductive Porsche plans to add the inductive charging system to other electric vehicles in its lineup after the Cayenne EV's launch. New Atlas, 5 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 But future versions of the motor will use a wireless system, possibly based on inductive coupling, Haran says. IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for inductive
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Adjective
  • 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
  • To do this, Sinclair’s team developed ICE, short for inducible changes to the epigenome.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Amid the pandemic-era lockdowns, more and more people began paying for explicit content online.
    Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Not until 2013, however, did French chocolate undergo a more explicit change.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies would correctly be interpreted as the categorical betrayal of a GOP that has promised to overturn, not just lightly defund, Obamacare.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For now, the court has upheld several Trump administration actions while constraining others, suggesting a jurisprudence driven more by specific contexts than categorical rules.
    Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • By hearing the results of their entangled choices, users can gain a more concrete and intuitive grasp of these concepts.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The future of vehicles is a world where car buyers can purchase a vehicle once and reap the benefits of its intuitive design throughout its lifecycle, enjoying new features and upgrades without having to pay an additional cost.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Not home in the physical sense, but in the ancestral one — that instinctive recognition that lives in the bones.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In Warhead, Wright explains how armed conflict impacts every part of our brain, from the instinctive reflexes of our reptilian brainstem to the cognitive and metacognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Inductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductive. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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