Verb (used with object) : to detect someone cheating. ,to detect the odor of gas. ,to detect a spy.    From Dictionary.com. 

Would I be correct in detecting a little Voltáire?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruralshire Policing Pledge « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

We are grateful for the outstanding work of the FBI in detecting and disrupting this plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man charged over Washington subway 'terror plot'] Reference

Michaelis tried to detect, and fancied that he had succeeded in detecting, one or two such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Actually the IAEA was involved in detecting and reporting issues in both North Korea and Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ElBaradei, Smeared By Administration, Wins Nobel Peace Prize] Reference

They are apparently especially more useful in detecting problems in younger, denser breast tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [What do you think of the new breast cancer guidelines? « Dating Jesus] Reference

Trained dogs can assist in detecting medical issues with the veterans such as changes in respiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franken's first goal: Dogs for vets] Reference

And the prefrontal cortex is even more involved in detecting novelty, like the unexpected photographs, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

In 1905 Stark succeeded for the first time in detecting this phenomenon in a canal-ray tube containing hydrogen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Anti virus developers have also increased their speed in detecting these strains and getting answers to their users.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Virus] Reference

My interest lies in detecting physical evidence that supports a general paradigm rather than a specific alternative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combinatorial Dependencies] Reference

The pressure of the public hot spots has made fishing very difficult and you have to be creative in detecting strikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have We Pounded Trout into Submission?] Reference

This observation resonates loudly with my own personal, subjective experience in detecting any design, thus it is useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are dem bunny prints?] Reference

If that number is accurate, which I have no reason to believe that it is not, then Google is doing a great job in detecting click fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Told You Click Fraud Wasn’t That Bad] Reference

As the fault was too serious to be overlooked, and as there was a difficulty in detecting its situation, preparations were made to get the picking-up apparatus ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board the Great Eastern] Reference

The stag detecting the huntsman's horn could not have started with more wild emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference

There seems to be a problem among today’s youth in detecting vampires in their midst.    From Wordnik.com.  [IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 12TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews] Reference

And it’s been approved by the FDA for clinical use in detecting heart transplant rejection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breast Cancer Can Be Detected Through Breathalyzer Test | Impact Lab] Reference

And the idea of detecting suspicious behavior in a few seconds is a little bit over-ambitious.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2005] Reference

A new idea of his own perspicacity in detecting a thing at once so agreeable and so little advertised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convert] Reference

Uniquely, QTC's provide a 'proportional' response - in other words detecting 'how hard' they have been touched.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

I’m sure they’re investing huge resources in detecting and eliminating spam from their index, it’s such a core issue for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripting News for 8/27/07 « Scripting News Annex] Reference

Jeff Shallit and I applied it to the idea of detecting a simple computational process as a causal factor in an appendix to this essay.    From Wordnik.com.  [False positives and the design inference - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

I'd loved working with the manuscripts, but "detecting" was another matter and without Henry, unthinkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Murder]

You can try to decode it without giving one fig about whether it was designed, let alone actually "detecting" design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Thinking Exercise] Reference

Zachriel and I criticize Dembski's method for allowing false positives — that is, for "detecting" design where there is none.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memory Hole] Reference

The instrument also permits other activities, such as detecting the onset of bad weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silicon Republic - News] Reference

The test revealed a strong bias in the method toward 'detecting' differences that were not real.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference

They also support other catalog quality initiatives such as detecting and removing duplicate pages on the website.    From Wordnik.com.  [CrunchBoard Jobs] Reference

"detecting" since Detective Oh has made the world so interesting for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking with Mystery Writer Sharon Fiffer] Reference

(By contrast, detecting nuclear tests is child's play.).    From Wordnik.com.  [After Sheep And Pigs, Goo] Reference

·Antisubmarine warfare: Beijing obtained research on detecting American subs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nuclear Spy Case Suffers A Meltdown] Reference

Today mammograms are making a significant dent in detecting early tumor growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Keren is "cautiously optimistic" that his mathematical program might eventually be useful in detecting fakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teaching a Computer to Appreciate Art] Reference

Sophisticated genetic probes, capable of detecting even minute quantities of the virus, repeatedly turn up nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is A New Aids Virus Emerging?] Reference

Two thirds of the accidents occurred at altitudes above 30,000 feet, where radar is less effective at detecting turbulence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fatal Jolt Over The Pacific] Reference

But psychiatrists are now detecting it much earlier, especially in kids with a family history since the disorder is so highly heritable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troubled Souls] Reference