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When combined with current financial data, the model can infer a level of context about a person’s private life that many fail to realize, Bellini explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I didn’t understand your reference to the possible destruction of your career. You didn’t mean to infer that this committee was bringing you here because of any effect on your career?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Our intention in making this show was, again, what we know about their lived reality, but what can we infer might have happened behind those closed doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
One might infer, as Baier suggested in his Friday interview, that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are thus effectively contained.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
I know the judge will tell the jury not to infer anything if you don't take the stand, but I believe that the jury wants to hear from you.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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Combining these two, Caballero infers that shift from a safety premium to an absorption premium explains about 0.75 percentage points of the roughly 2.5 percentage point rise in yields since 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
For many men, vulnerability frequently infers fragility, weakness and, perhaps in Gyllenhaal’s case, artistic insecurity.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Rather than randomly sampling the noise term, their approximation technique infers the missing term from the current 3D shape rendering.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
"And this model infers whether the vessel is likely a fishing vessel or not a fishing vessel, like passenger vessels, oil tankers, shipping vessels and that kind of stuff."
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
Hence Porphyry infers, "that the Apostles, and indeed the chief of them, did not publicly study the salvation of all men, but that each of them was privately attentive to his own renown."
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
“But what can’t be inferred from the index is the future value of those currencies,” added Cox in a video interview from his base in Hong Kong.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
From it, the court just inferred that it must recognize serious, heady limits on Congress’ power to spend the tax dollars it has collected.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
"For many cosmic-ray events taken together, their energy distribution, arrival-direction pattern and statistically inferred composition provide important clues about where these particles come from and how they are accelerated."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026
Lacking data on who actually adopted DEI, the authors inferred the presence of such policies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Chiefdoms are inferred from archaeological evidence, such as ranked burials, architecture, and settlement patterns.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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A senior living alone might not fully understand what the robot in the corner is observing, inferring or reporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
But TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins said inferring anything of value from the chart would actually be a mistake.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
However, Stas acknowledges that the companion is still inferring and reflecting back a user’s cues.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2025
"Importantly, our blood test can analyze NTM DNA fragments in the bloodstream, thereby inferring a drug response, which is crucial for rapidly determining treatment plans, capabilities traditional diagnostic approaches cannot achieve."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
Obtaining Personal Information The name of the game in statistics is the inferring of information about a large population by examining characteristics of a small, randomly selected sample.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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