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infer

[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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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

Investors are focusing on the Bank of Japan’s policy meeting and Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s press conference later Friday to infer the pace of future rate increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

To analyze these data, the researchers developed a bioinformatic method based on 'reverse ecology,' an approach that uses genomic information to infer how organisms have adapted to particular environments.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Most people would look at this correlation and infer an obvious cause-and-effect relationship.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Alexander would die far from home in the palace at Babylon—Mr. Richardson infers typhoid—in 323 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

This season's action infers that maybe the law is less practical in dealing with people like Gator and Roy than a sense of justice and a fierce survival instinct.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2023

He heard afterwards that the first king of Kisbakka, a country to the southwest, was an Arab, whose scimiter is still preserved by the natives, and infers that these people may be his descendants.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley

The finding also suggests that Cretaceous mammals may not have been as anatomically varied as scientists might have inferred from their teeth alone.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Neutral rates cannot be directly observed, and instead must be inferred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

The more argon found, the more neutrinos inferred.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

But TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins said inferring anything of value from the chart would actually be a mistake.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025

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

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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