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Definition
conclude by reasoning — especially reasoning from the general to the particular- She trusts only what she can measure or can deduce from measurement.
deduce = conclude by reasoning
- Now let us consider the situation and see what may be deduced from it.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- But a skeleton was a poor thing, really, from which to try and deduce the total behavior of an organism.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- When her apple turned to gold, interception of Potentials ceased, leading many to deduce that she was the traitor.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- This ancient manuscript records the cycles of the planets and from those deduces calculations of vast cosmic cycles.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- Marie-Laure deduces what she can from the sounds of their shoes: those are small, those weigh a ton, those hardly exist at all.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- It would not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that you have been cooking over a camp-fire, to say nothing of trying out seal-blubber.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- Would he have deduced the reason why I didn't confide in him?Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- We won't know exactly what occurred during that attack until Arya wakes, but I have deduced a few details from what you've said.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- But Leo still had to deduce the right sequence to activate this control sphere.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- By using a computer, the pattern of dots could be analyzed and the structure deduced.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- I had no difficulty in deducing from your unreserved conversation, and the rumour openly going about among your admirers, the nature of your calling.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- They'd seen each other only twice, and there wasn't a chance that Thigh-bolt could have deduced the truth from those two meetings.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- Based on Major Rathbone's wounds, and the fact that he didn't hear any gunshot during the performance, Leale deduces that Lincoln was stabbed.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- From medical journals he deduced that he was suffering from a newly identified ailment known as post-polio syndrome.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- And to his great delight, he deduced their intent to stay.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that.Stephen King -- Cujo
- But he had gone further, deducing that the hollowing action had been accomplished by Lost River itself.Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
- I deduced that they must be climbers from the Montenegrin expedition; if they succeeded they would be the first team to reach the top this year.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
deduced = conclude by reasoning