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[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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Location data is any kind of data which can be used to infer a person's location.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

I wouldn’t, however, infer too much from the outcome in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

It can’t infer genocide willy-nilly if there are other reasonable inferences that can be drawn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Their system was able to infer people's identities with almost 100% accuracy, regardless of the viewing perspective or the way a person walked.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

There was no physical act, no word spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train of thought that they had not been able to infer.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Combining these two, Caballero infers that shift from a safety premium to an absorption premium explains about 0.75 percentage points of the roughly 2.5 percentage point rise in yields since 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

"The depth infers that it's probably natural. Natural events typically occur at those depths," Salvage said at the time.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2023

In heat both metals expand, which infers that the rims become longer as well as wider and thicker.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein

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

That behavior does not fit the pattern inferred for Venus, where absorption falls sharply between 365 and 455 nm.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Under past ICJ cases, genocidal intent can be proved directly through evidence of a “genocidal plan” or inferred from a “pattern of conduct.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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

Chiefdoms are inferred from archaeological evidence, such as ranked burials, architecture, and settlement patterns.

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

This argument would essentially function as a variation on the so-called dormant commerce clause by inferring implied constitutional constraints on states’ sovereign powers.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

But TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins said inferring anything of value from the chart would actually be a mistake.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 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

The other is growing the right branches, that is, inferring how the words are supposed to join up in phrases.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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