inductive

adjective

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Recent Examples of inductive This inductive technology replaces traditional physical plugs that are highly susceptible to corrosion and wear from saltwater and algae. — New Atlas, 5 May 2026 Some hope that inductive (wireless) charging will be the answer, and indeed Tesla (being both the car OEM and the largest charging station builder) plans this for its CyberCab. — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 25 Mar. 2026 There’s even inductive wireless charging for the EV, a first for Porsche. — Jeremy White, Wired News, 17 Jan. 2026 The external unit powers the system with inductive charging similar to wireless phone chargers. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inductive
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  1. inducible
  2. explicit
  3. categorical
  4. intuitive
  5. instinctive
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  • 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
Definition of inducible
Adjective
  • The customer can still say yes, but the tradeoff is explicit.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • An Indiana man was arrested this summer for allegedly stalking Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and sending her threatening and explicit messages on social media.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of explicit
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  • His concurrence read the panel’s decision as narrower than a categorical rejection of federal access.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The second type, structural assets, derives value from categorical assertion.
    — Joseph Byrum, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of categorical
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  • The eighteen-meter-tall brick curve that encases the altar has a tremendous body, nearly ominous in its presence, that imparts an intuitive understanding—even amid the doubt—that what provides shelter necessarily does so through strength.
    — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Developed by the Ellyn Satter Institute, a nonprofit focused on improving people’s relationship to food, the goal of the framework is to introduce intuitive eating in a kid-friendly way.
    — Bryn Beeder, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of intuitive
Adjective
  • Like Irving Berlin, Miranda is an instinctive musician whose mistakes can be worth more than other people’s rules.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Cinema needs women who are complicated, instinctive, ambitious, vulnerable, fearless and free – women who do not ask permission to take up space.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
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“Inductive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inductive. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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