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. Jerry Guilbert:

   Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are.

2. Jessica Spencer:

   We are not there yet, first of all, i have no doubt as the genome is better characterized, there will be more ways of detecting things that aren't necessarily associated with health problems.

3. Chris Vagasky:

   It’s the most extreme concentration of lightning that we’ve ever detected, we’ve been detecting lightning for 40 years now, and this is really an extreme event.

4. Robert Robins:

   When we started going out into the field and collecting them and actually finding them in breeding condition or as dominant males, theyre stunningly beautiful, i think thats what the amateur community was keying in on. Theyre the ones detecting life color, and that was really instructive in determining this was a different species.

5. Carl DeMaio:

   First, the homeless population increase, which provides a source of food which supports population growth, second, many local governments, including Los Angeles, have banned the most effective practices for detecting and eradicating rats.