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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In cases of viruses that are aimed at specific targets, or serial virus writers, deductive profiling can be useful in tracking down the virus creator, Gordon said.
  — Michelle Delio, WIRED, 29 May 2001
• The language should be deductive, based on specific facts and information, not inductive, or trying to draw conclusions or explain what happened.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• The emphasis in convergent thinking is on analytical and deductive reasoning, such as that measured in IQ tests.
  — David Pearson, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2016
• Solving them in real life can require knowledge and skills in deductive reasoning, psychology, and forensic science.
  — Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2020
• Ergo, the rise of cladistic techniques which replaced intuition with a more formal hypothetico-deductive framework.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2010
• While the confirmation that a nuclear explosion did take place is fairly certain, the Israeli-South African theory is more an exercise in deductive reasoning.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2018
• The winning never changes, but the shifting story lines, personnel evaluations, and roster rationalizations will leave you with deductive whiplash.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Sherlock was the celebrated master of deductive reasoning; Max makes psychological surveys of crime scenes and/or subjects, and the processes are not so different.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• But because these visual responses remain stable throughout development until adulthood, this type of deductive reasoning may be a primitive and essential facet of the human mind.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2018
• Puzzle-like tasks assessed their spatial, verbal and short-term memories, as well as their capacity for deductive reasoning, sustained attention, planning and clear expression.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
• The Enlightenment and all of its hallmarks—the scientific method, deductive reasoning, a willingness to question authority and established truth—rely on investigative searches for the truth.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024