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

He wrote that he was satisfied a fair trial could take place, and that the tribunal could "draw appropriate inferences" from the missing documentation.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024

His analysis of these cases is shallow and often dubious; Barrett highlighted unfounded inferences in Thomas’ skim of the historical record, questioning his generalizations from a handful of archaic decisions.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2024

Conditional Probability, Blackjack, and Drug Testing One needn’t be a believer in any of the standard pseudosciences to make faulty claims and invalid inferences.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos