inferences

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However, if a tenant is late or misses a payment, it shows up as “no data available” on a credit report, which Dempsey said lenders and future landlords can draw negative inferences from.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Hawley has a penchant for poetic concepts, literary references, political inferences and out-of-the-mainstream ideas that may not always make perfect sense, but his ambition shows through.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

Christopher, from east London, believes these so-called secret inferences are bringing harm to people across the world.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

We don’t yet know the precise details of the deal, or why Putin and President Joe Biden’s team of negotiators have struck it now, but a few inferences can be drawn.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2024

And so, in consequence, there are infinite habitable worlds; what hinders? ... these and suchlike insolent and bold attempts, prodigious paradoxes, inferences must needs follow, if it once be granted which ...

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan