Synonyms for detecting
de·tect·ing

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1. detection, detecting, detective work, sleuthingnoun

   a police investigation to determine the perpetrator

   "detection is hard on the feet"

   Synonyms:
   detective work, spying, sleuthing, sensing, detection, signal detection, catching, espial, spotting

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1. List of paraphrases for "detecting":

   detect, detection, discovery, identifying, identify, sensing, discover, screening, discovering

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1. Dan Lindsey:

   The Advanced Baseline Imager, or ABI, is ideal for detecting the thermal signature, or the hot spots, from the fires, sometimes, it's even able to detect the fires before they're reported from the public. This is really critical information to get to firefighters so that they can take care of the fires before they can become out of control.

2. Felipe Gmez:

   Given the risk of detecting any type of contamination, microbiologists that work in extreme environments take many precautions to avoid it, in our work, we sampled in completely aseptic conditions.

3. Pascal Lee:

   Water ice is, at present, not stable at the very surface of Mars near the equator at these elevations, so, it’s not surprising that we’re not detecting any water ice at the surface. It is possible that all the glacier’s water ice has sublimated away by now. But there’s also a chance that some of it might still be protected at shallow depth under the sulfate salts.

4. Carly Fiorina:

   Finally, I would say these Chinese cyberattacks are an act of aggression on the United States, and they must stop, it is also true that our government has to be more competent about detecting and repelling those attacks.

5. Victoria Harmer:

   It is encouraging and perhaps to be celebrated that women are detecting similar rates of cancers and this should arm women with confidence that they are performing this task well, the risk of breast cancer increases with a woman's age, so it is vital older women continue to be breast aware.