infer
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"When we detect individual cosmic-ray particles such as the Amaterasu particle here on Earth, we can often use their energies, arrival directions and expected magnetic deflections to infer their possible cosmic sources."
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 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
Responding “We bought a Christmas tree” is a happy, cozy statement, reflecting that you will not be spending Christmas alone, or, one can infer, most likely dying alone too.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 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
“You have to infer the whole dragon from the parts you can see and touch,” the old people would say.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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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