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[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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Both Steinbeck and Zoe Kazan infer that something happened to Cathy when she was very young.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Location data is any kind of data which can be used to infer a person's location.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

For instance, I recently gave Claude Code a year of my chats, and asked it to infer my top values and priorities from the way I talked about different tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"That material is normally permanently buried -- we can only infer what's there. Here, a catastrophic event essentially turned these ancient moons inside out, and we get to see what was hidden inside."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Although we are warned that some of these will dissolve varnish, paint, and synthetic fabrics, we are presumably to infer that the human skin is impervious to chemicals.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

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

"The depth infers that it's probably natural. Natural events typically occur at those depths," Salvage said at the time.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2023

The former infers from the particular in a present perception, which in previous perceptions was uniformly connected with other particular contents of perception, to a particular that resembles those other contents of perception.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

Neutral rates cannot be directly observed, and instead must be inferred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Meink didn’t say, but the range can be inferred from published accounts about the kinds of space-control weapons that Russia or China has launched and tested.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Lawyers for Rockstar said there was nothing in the signatures that could identify them as union members, but Oram told the tribunal it could be "inferred" who was by those who handed in the petition.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Crucially, the negative value of the weakly measured dwell time cannot be explained by imagining that only the front of the photon’s pulse gets through, unlike the time inferred from the arrival time.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

I could see him moody, difficult, irritable perhaps, but not angry as she had inferred, not passionate.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

"You can see the effects clearly, but the real challenge is inferring the hidden cause."

From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026

Not all of the King's speech needed inferring.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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