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infer

[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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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

Even though the wearables can only infer the stages, using heart rate and movement data, they kept up pretty well.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

Just as new drivers learn to use a rearview mirror to track other vehicles, "Octopuses can also learn how to use a mirror to infer where things are in the world."

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 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

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

When you say you are “not expecting to receive many gifts, except from the few friends attending,” Miss Manners infers that you have misplaced your grammar and not your priorities.

From Washington Post Sep. 1, 2022

This infers a 57% chance of the deal closing, based on Activision's closing share price of $65.39 before the deal was announced.

From Reuters Jan. 20, 2022

It is true, that they all have false ideas, but this by no means infers, a defect of the power by which sensations are apprehended in the mind.

From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John

But, he said, "There is no evidence from which it can be inferred Mr Badea had knowledge of those matters."

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

From it, the court just inferred that it must recognize serious, heady limits on Congress’ power to spend the tax dollars it has collected.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2026

Demographic information was largely absent, beyond what could be inferred from appearance.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

That case, the company said, “related to an engineer following inaccurate advice that an AI tool inferred from an outdated internal wiki,” and none involved “AI-written code.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

In the absence of written records, the evidence of those prehistoric replacements must be sought in the archaeological record or inferred from linguistic evidence.

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

It’s not even a case of inferring reality from a dog that didn’t bark.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 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

However, Stas acknowledges that the companion is still inferring and reflecting back a user’s cues.

From Slate Sep. 25, 2025

It is easy to envisage Nunez as the architect of chaos, inferring much of what he does is instinctive rather than calculated.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2024

This practice of inferring the motivations and intentions of others is classic thin-slicing.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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