Definitions

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  • noun One who, or that which, deduces.

Etymologies

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deduce +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The master deducer has been played by lots of actors in lots of productions, many of them awesome.

    Which Sherlock Holmes reboot are you more psyched for? | EW.com 2008

  • It was also gleaned almost entire from reading, so he's often never heard these words actually spoken by anyone but himself, and it turns out he's not the greatest pronunciation-deducer of all time.

    Question of the Day 2007

  • It was also gleaned almost entire from reading, so he's often never heard these words actually spoken by anyone but himself, and it turns out he's not the greatest pronunciation-deducer of all time.

    Question of the Day 2007

  • Perkins III, detective cat, deducer without parallel, champion figure-outer, handed over the map and sat with his back against a wall by the door, as dejected as one would likely ever catch the flamboyant feline.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Perkins III, detective cat, deducer without parallel, champion figure-outer, handed over the map and sat with his back against a wall by the door, as dejected as one would likely ever catch the flamboyant feline.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Perkins III, detective cat, deducer without parallel, champion figure-outer, handed over the map and sat with his back against a wall by the door, as dejected as one would likely ever catch the flamboyant feline.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • "On the center of the beam, all the way-your deducer is blasting at maximum," Haynes said, in admiration.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • And when I'd had my rapid-fire deducer workin 'for a few minutes I'd doped out my big idea.

    Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

  • But as a matter of fact my deducer was runnin 'down.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • When S.S. Van Dine, who was meticulous in his choice of names and had a fine ear for their connotations and exactitude, needed a first name for his dilettante deducer, he selected - as the quintessence of sophistication, as the moniker that would go flawlessly with a monocle - Philo.

    In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864

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