- plural of inference.
inferences
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They can analyze data and make predictive inferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
However, if a tenant is late or misses a payment, it shows up as “no data available” on a credit report, which Dempsey said lenders and future landlords can draw negative inferences from.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Hawley has a penchant for poetic concepts, literary references, political inferences and out-of-the-mainstream ideas that may not always make perfect sense, but his ambition shows through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2025
"The court must draw inferences but not speculate," she concluded.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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