infer
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"That material is normally permanently buried -- we can only infer what's there. Here, a catastrophic event essentially turned these ancient moons inside out, and we get to see what was hidden inside."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
When combined with current financial data, the model can infer a level of context about a person’s private life that many fail to realize, Bellini explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 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
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
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
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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
"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
The process of handling AI-powered search queries is known as "inference," in which a "neural network" loosely modeled on the human brain's biology infers the answer to a question from prior training.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2023
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
“Splicing the main-brace” infers extra grog served out for extraordinary service.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
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 more argon found, the more neutrinos inferred.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
This practice of inferring the motivations and intentions of others is classic thin-slicing.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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