How to Use process of elimination in a Sentence

process of elimination

noun phrase
  • By process of elimination, maybe Dame?
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Ainge landed in the lottery room after a process of elimination.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Using the process of elimination, work your way down the list until your start-up problem is remedied.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The best corners can identify routes, by process of elimination, based on the first few steps a receiver takes.
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Doctors use a process of elimination to diagnose chronic hives, rather than a single test.
    — Zia Sherrell, Health, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Creating the scent — with Amber as his favorite note — was a process of elimination.
    — Lizzie Hyman, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Labin details the elaborate process of elimination that determines which socks to bring to the festival each year.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 26 Mar. 2026
  • However, some of these self-reactive immune cells escape this process of elimination and are released into the rest of the body.
    — Aimee Pugh Bernard, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Probably not happening This exercise is, in some ways, a process of elimination.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Based on process of elimination and some undeniably sinister vibes, Amber felt like a reasonably safe bet.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The easiest way to label America’s new political system might be through the process of elimination.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In that situation, which is what unfolded on Election Night, a process of elimination crowns the top vote-getter after all other ballots have been redistributed to the leading candidates based on second-choice, third-choice or even fourth-choice picks.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Doctors generally do imaging tests such as CT scans or MRIs before concluding—often through process of elimination—that a patient is experiencing a migraine.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Initially, the search operation centred on the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca; but investigators later established (using satellite data, and a process of elimination) that MH370 turned sharply again and flew on for hours, to the southern Indian Ocean.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2026

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