infer
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“From our pets to our cars, we infer and attribute emotions, intentions, and minds to non-human entities,” Suleyman wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Both Steinbeck and Zoe Kazan infer that something happened to Cathy when she was very young.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
"This lets us more precisely infer causality between events in the geologic record, for example a meteor impact structure and a mass extinction," Renne said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Location data is any kind of data which can be used to infer a person's location.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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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Combining these two, Caballero infers that shift from a safety premium to an absorption premium explains about 0.75 percentage points of the roughly 2.5 percentage point rise in yields since 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
For many men, vulnerability frequently infers fragility, weakness and, perhaps in Gyllenhaal’s case, artistic insecurity.
From Salon ● May 27, 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
Hence, Futterer infers, in recent geological times no large sea has occupied the central part of the Gobi.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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
But such a war would be putty in the hands of international judges if they were to adopt a vaguer standard that allows genocidal intent to be inferred “holistically” from “facts and circumstances.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
They were also competitive with constraints inferred from astrophysical X-ray observations made by observatories such as Chandra and NuSTAR, although those astrophysical limits depend on certain theoretical assumptions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Chiefdoms are inferred from archaeological evidence, such as ranked burials, architecture, and settlement patterns.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
But TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins said inferring anything of value from the chart would actually be a mistake.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
The timing of these expressions was critical -- delayed facial mimicry looks disingenuous, but facial co-expression feels more genuine since it requires correctly inferring the human's emotional state for timely execution.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
The other is growing the right branches, that is, inferring how the words are supposed to join up in phrases.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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