Usually means: Infer the simplest explanation possible.
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  1. abduce: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Abduce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Abduce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. abduce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  12. abduce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (abduce)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body; abduct.
verb:  (transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce.

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