infer

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The judge would have to infer guilt from the fact that stories contained private information, and, he claimed, Mail journalists had a "propensity" to use unlawful methods.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Any reasonable person can infer that these transactions are bribes.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Researchers combine those measurements with known chemical reactions to infer what may be happening deeper below the clouds.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

AI Inbox prioritizes messages using signals such as people you email frequently and relationships it can infer from the message content.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

However, when we find evidence that the same wild ancestor was domesticated independently in different areas, we infer that the crop spread too slowly to preempt its domestication elsewhere.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond