verb · academic
deduce
UK/dɪˈdjuːs/US/dɪˈduːs/de·DUCE
Band 6-7speakingtask2
to reach a conclusion or form an opinion from available information or evidence
Examples
“From the data presented, we can deduce that the policy had little effect on employment.”
“Detectives deduced the likely time of the crime from security footage.”
“You cannot deduce causation from correlation alone.”
Band 8 sentence
“Given the sample distribution and control conditions, we can deduce with some confidence that the intervention reduced uptake.”
Collocations
- deduce from
- deduce that
Word family
deduction noundeductive adjective
Common mistakes
deduce to→deduce from
deduce that is true→deduce that it is true
Say it for a higher band
5guess→6infer→7+deduce
Synonyms
infer
Easily confused
infer
“From the pattern of results, we inferred a link and then deduced a possible mechanism.”
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