infer
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“We’ll infer from the minutes what Warsh wants us to know and what he doesn’t want us to know. That will give us information on how he intends to run the show,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026
Wearables shine LEDs into your skin, monitoring blood pumping through your veins to infer heart rate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
"We're trying to infer processes from incomplete clues, often with very limited data collected by missions that are extraordinarily expensive and infrequent."
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
Courts infer intent every day from what people do, from the consequences they know will follow, from patterns that repeat with such consistency that coincidence is no longer a plausible explanation.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
There was no physical act, no word spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train of thought that they had not been able to infer.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing infer
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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