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Abductive

//æbˈdʌk.tɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Being or relating to a logical process of abduction or inference. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Abducting, pertaining to an abduction (a kidnapping). not-comparable, rare

    "The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]"

Etymology

From abduct + -ive.

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