infer
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In this case, limb bones made it possible to identify a new species, infer aspects of its locomotion, investigate its phylogenetic relationships, and expand the known distribution of a rare group of Triassic reptiles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
“We’ll infer from the minutes what Warsh wants us to know and what he doesn’t want us to know. That will give us information on how he intends to run the show,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Wearables shine LEDs into your skin, monitoring blood pumping through your veins to infer heart rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Our intention in making this show was, again, what we know about their lived reality, but what can we infer might have happened behind those closed doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
The physical and linguistic evidence considered so far has let us infer these prehistoric engulfings, but it still hasn’t solved their mysteries for us.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
When you say you are “not expecting to receive many gifts, except from the few friends attending,” Miss Manners infers that you have misplaced your grammar and not your priorities.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022
This infers a valuation on the combined entity of close to $13 billion, including debt.
From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2022
In heat both metals expand, which infers that the rims become longer as well as wider and thicker.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
Crucially, the negative value of the weakly measured dwell time cannot be explained by imagining that only the front of the photon’s pulse gets through, unlike the time inferred from the arrival time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“But what can’t be inferred from the index is the future value of those currencies,” added Cox in a video interview from his base in Hong Kong.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
But, he said, "There is no evidence from which it can be inferred Mr Badea had knowledge of those matters."
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
From it, the court just inferred that it must recognize serious, heady limits on Congress’ power to spend the tax dollars it has collected.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
The supergiant is an unlikely source of X-rays, and it is tempting to identify the companion inferred in visible light with the source detected in X-ray light.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
However, Stas acknowledges that the companion is still inferring and reflecting back a user’s cues.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2025
Obtaining Personal Information The name of the game in statistics is the inferring of information about a large population by examining characteristics of a small, randomly selected sample.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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