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- verb Present participle of
deduce .
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Examples
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KRISTOL: No, it’s a result of our deducing from the situation in Iraq that we can’t stand up to Iran.
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June 22nd, 2006 at 5: 53 pm mighty aphrodite says: bLiAR – As you apparently have no extraordinary credentials or insight, what is your basis of thought in deducing that Iraqi’s should be able to hold their own in 12 mos.
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Kroger shopper Joyce Grosshenrich of Cobden, Ill., recalled deducing from her mailings that her buying habits were being tracked.
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Kroger shopper Joyce Grosshenrich of Cobden, Ill., recalled deducing from her mailings that her buying habits were being tracked.
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So I was just kind of deducing that they had been there to spray down that accident site.
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So simply deducing a password like this doesn't happen? matt
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Such "isms," she said, claim to explain all historical happenings by deducing them from a single self-evident idea or premise--for example, that history "progresses" through the elimination of inferior races (Nazism) or decadent classes (Communism).
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden Robert D. Stolorow 2011
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The group has a well-documented history of conflating speakers' attendance at these events and deducing from that a broad endorsement of their agenda.
Mujahideen-e Khalq: Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorist Organization 2011
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Computers are extremely poor at making inferences and deducing relationships.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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But notice the huge difference: Rand takes the existence of the physical world as obvious, while Descartes has a tortured argument deducing the existence of the physical world from the cogito.
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