How to Use deductive in a Sentence

deductive

adjective
  • A lot of people in the banking industry who’ve seen that study continue to latch on to this very deductive approach.
    Adam Blue, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Both of those trains of thought still use deductive reasoning, even if not accurate.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • In doing so, the AI gives the deductive algorithm new information to work with.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But Mindy wants you to have the basic information and then use deductive reasoning to figure it out.
    Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The corresponding solution would then consist of the steps that led the deductive algorithm to it.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Challenge cards include clues, and players have to use their deductive reasoning to figure out which suspect did the deed.
    Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But the vagueness of the allegations so far leads only to questions and a confusing deductive trail.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Now, Enola and her deductive skills are back, this time facing a conspiracy that could prove to be her most dangerous case yet.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Ages 3+ Sharpen their deductive reasoning skills by asking them to assume the role of detective and solve the mysteries in this book.
    Good Housekeeping, 4 Dec. 2022
  • As Jersey Lily begins, Holmes is desperate for a challenge worthy of his deductive gifts.
    Chris Vognar, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
  • While most patients never pay the full cost of drugs out of pocket, people who are uninsured and those with high-deductive plans may have trouble accessing these therapies.
    WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Many audiences—in a business meeting, for example—are of course composed of both inductive and deductive thinkers.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
    Mary McNamara, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Readers are in store for plenty of surprises, until the laurel of deductive success is awarded to Detective Galileo.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Medicine is moving inexorably away from the deductive arts, becoming more technology- and test-dependent and less patient-centric.
    Eric Snoey, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
  • My colleague Ethan Siegel very ably explains Batygin and Brown’s gravitational deductive process here; the research paper is here.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2016
  • Many are deductive in reasoning, using logic to ask, challenge, probe, and analyze.
    Ronald C. White, Time, 10 June 2021
  • Games like Wordle can sharpen our deductive reasoning skills, Lightfoot adds.
    Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
    Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
    Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
    John Wogan Hasisi Park, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
    Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
    Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The objective is to test one another’s deductive reasoning skills.
    Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There is an abundance of deductive speculation among Gamache and his team, and the brainstorming continues even after the suspects are gathered for a final confrontation.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In the show, Dr. House, an extremely cranky but brilliant practitioner, was able to employ deductive reasoning to solve even the most baffling medical issues.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 5 June 2021
  • But if deductive reasoning is not enough to sway you, there's also the fact that a Republican is occasionally impolitic enough to admit the chicanery outright.
    Author: Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
  • He’s got the powers of observation and deductive reasoning!
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Reason, meanwhile, means inquiry that draws on logic and deductive reasoning.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024

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