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
“I didn’t understand your reference to the possible destruction of your career. You didn’t mean to infer that this committee was bringing you here because of any effect on your career?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Responding “We bought a Christmas tree” is a happy, cozy statement, reflecting that you will not be spending Christmas alone, or, one can infer, most likely dying alone too.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
In each case, what you can see points beyond itself to something you can reliably infer.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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One way Caballero infers this is by comparing Treasury yields to swaps, derivatives used to manage interest exposure that serve as a sort of benchmark corporate borrowing rate.
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
It observes, experiments, and infers; but it makes no claim to the possession of absolute truth.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
“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
Among the biggest mysteries are the surprisingly low concentrations of dark matter found at the centers of some dwarf galaxies and the unexpectedly dense dark matter clumps inferred from strong gravitational lensing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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
In the absence of written records, the evidence of those prehistoric replacements must be sought in the archaeological record or inferred from linguistic evidence.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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It’s not even a case of inferring reality from a dog that didn’t bark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
It is easy to envisage Nunez as the architect of chaos, inferring much of what he does is instinctive rather than calculated.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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