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
Location data is any kind of data which can be used to infer a person's location.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Investors were left to infer his views, and the guesses ranged from a chairman who would delay hikes as long as possible to one who was ready to raise rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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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Alexander would die far from home in the palace at Babylon—Mr. Richardson infers typhoid—in 323 B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Estonia's NLP algorithms break down a request into small segments, identify key words, and from that infers what user wants.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2024
This season's action infers that maybe the law is less practical in dealing with people like Gator and Roy than a sense of justice and a fierce survival instinct.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2023
Moreover, his eldest son had now fixed on the cavalry, in which service every step infers very considerable expense.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Near the cluster's center, the shape of the intracluster light closely matches the distribution of dark matter inferred from strong gravitational lensing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Many Fed watchers inferred that their comments reflected a broader consensus among officials that the Fed could wait until December to raise interest rates again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
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
Since all other Niger-Congo speakers, as well as the Bantu, are blacks, we couldn’t have inferred who migrated in which direction just from the evidence of physical anthropology.
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
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
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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