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infer

[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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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

And recently, rapidly advancing artificial-intelligence technologies that can analyze the massive digital dossiers about us and infer nearly everything about us.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Even though the wearables can only infer the stages, using heart rate and movement data, they kept up pretty well.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

Turning a look of mock shock on me, “You don’t mean to infer that I talked too much!”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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

Mr. Thornton infers that the elder Daniel returned to Ireland, and that Daniel the younger, and Captain John Gookin, were his sons.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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

“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

I could see him moody, difficult, irritable perhaps, but not angry as she had inferred, not passionate.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

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

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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