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Answer for the clue "Inferring or drawing conclusions ", 8 letters:
deducing

Word definitions for deducing in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deduce \De*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deduced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Deducing .] [L. deducere; de- + ducere to lead, draw. See Duke , and cf. Deduct .] To lead forth. [A Latinism] He should hither deduce a colony. --Selden. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of deduce English)

Usage examples of deducing.

Charlotte had no difficulty at all in deducing that Michi Urashima’s was not one of the names Lowenthal’s employers had feared or expected to hear in this context—although there was one item of their discussion downstairs which had pointed to a pattern into which Urashima fit as snugly as a hand into a glove.

Others were less restrained, deducing not only that the Face was a genuine, monumental sculpture of a human being, but claiming to find a city nearby with temples and fortifications.

He demonstrated the simple deceptions and misdirections by which some psychic spoonbend-ers had conned prominent theoretical physicists into deducing new physical phenomena.

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

And therefore they have in their speeches, a regard to the common Passions, and opinions of men, in deducing their reasons.

One exhausted himself in reminding them of events and in deducing causes from these.

The journals, deducing their consequences, explain to the people the use they ought to make of their reconquered sovereignty.