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[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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“Price alone should not be used to infer which model is actually cheaper.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

"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

This way, other nations could not infer from lack of openness which launches contained classified payloads.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

One way Caballero infers this is by comparing Treasury yields to swaps, derivatives used to manage interest exposure that serve as a sort of benchmark corporate borrowing rate.

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

Estonia's NLP algorithms break down a request into small segments, identify key words, and from that infers what user wants.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

He infers, however, that oil wells in the vicinity of auriferous deposits may yield a larger quantity of gold than from oil wells situated in carboniferous strata.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various

This effectively alters the cosmic ruler used to measure distances and, in turn, the value of the Hubble constant inferred from the model, helping to ease the Hubble tension.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 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

Mr. Druckenmiller argues that such transactions interfere with prices, distorting valuable messages that could be inferred from the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In a landmark paper written in 1897, entitled Hereditary Monstrosities, de Vries analyzed his data and inferred that each trait was governed by a single particle of information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This argument would essentially function as a variation on the so-called dormant commerce clause by inferring implied constitutional constraints on states’ sovereign powers.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

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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