This may appear circular, but it is by evolution that we have evolved multiple ways of detecting things in the world.

The Church has very kindly supplied me with new equipment, specifically designed to detect such things as palimpsests.

But perhaps, he thought to himself, adults could detect such things without being told.

Security was lax, depending too much upon software to detect things out of the ordinary.

He sees great potential for the electronic nose, he said, if it can detect such things.

And she had detected other things probe-opaque spheres below ground in the vicinity of the reactor.

He was teaching me how to detect things formally, through the old-fashioned routes, and without risking my foolish neck.

Perhaps a little, but it detects things that are typically themselves legitimate.

Can be used to detect things like the chemicals in a bomb hidden somewhere in a crowded room.

The dogs can be trained to detect things we humans would find completely odorless.