inferred

Example Sentences

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Under U.S. military law, all orders “may be inferred to be lawful,” with an exception only for “patently illegal orders.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s probably not fair, but I inferred that the Key West Literary Seminar actually had no idea what to do with a weekend full of crime writers.

From Salon

"If some people have mistakenly inferred that this children's production has any content about the migrant situation which has sparked debate in the UK some nine years later, then their reaction is misplaced."

From BBC

Since children inherit these bits of DNA only from their mothers, the researchers inferred that the maternal forbearers of the Swahili people were mostly of African descent.

From New York Times

The power of the fireball scales as the inferred distance to the fifth power.

From Salon