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draw a conclusion

phraseB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To draw a conclusion is to work out what the evidence in front of you shows. Two numbers on a page, and the sentence you write underneath them.

The verb is the pulling-out kind of draw, the one in draw water from a well, so a conclusion is drawn from something — and that from is the part learners drop. You draw one from the data, not about it. It is the scientist's phrase where reach a conclusion is the judge's: drawing is inference, reaching is arrival.

Definitions of draw a conclusion

  1. 1phrasedraw a conclusionTo work out what the evidence shows.B2

    “It is too early to draw a conclusion from one week.”

draw a conclusion is an act of reasoning.

Phrases it lives in

  • jump to conclusions — To decide what happened before you have looked at the evidence.

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