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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
I wouldn’t, however, infer too much from the outcome in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
I know the judge will tell the jury not to infer anything if you don't take the stand, but I believe that the jury wants to hear from you.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
"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
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 infers that every mental event is a genuine novelty, not predictable from the past, because the past contains nothing exactly like it by which we could imagine it.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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
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
Under past ICJ cases, genocidal intent can be proved directly through evidence of a “genocidal plan” or inferred from a “pattern of conduct.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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
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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
It’s not even a case of inferring reality from a dog that didn’t bark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Not all of the King's speech needed inferring.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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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