deduce
verb (used with object)
to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer.
has deduced
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present perfectof deduce (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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She has deduced that the parents of some of these children are responsible for a horrific public trauma that she suffered while in school—the same high school these kids now attend.
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2019
I’ve referred in recent days to Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight and their statistical wonkery, which has deduced that Sth Korea have a 1% chance of progressing today.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2018
Holmes has a unique reason for wanting to die: He has deduced that he may not be a real person, but a fiction, “some ink-stained scribbler’s creation.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2015
On the basis of these measurements, Domack has deduced that the warm-water incursion “kicked in somewhere around the turn of the last century, 1920 or 1930”.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2012
Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., has deduced some valuable facts from his experiments with the sphygmograph, upon the action of the heart.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
