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[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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“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

Our intention in making this show was, again, what we know about their lived reality, but what can we infer might have happened behind those closed doors.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

"We're trying to infer processes from incomplete clues, often with very limited data collected by missions that are extraordinarily expensive and infrequent."

From Science Daily May 12, 2026

The physical and linguistic evidence considered so far has let us infer these prehistoric engulfings, but it still hasn’t solved their mysteries for us.

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

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

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

This infers a 57% chance of the deal closing, based on Activision's closing share price of $65.39 before the deal was announced.

From Reuters Jan. 20, 2022

And there is another statement of the said Father Celestino Angelo, which infers the innocence of her past life from her conduct just before death.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

“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

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

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

However, Stas acknowledges that the companion is still inferring and reflecting back a user’s cues.

From Slate Sep. 25, 2025

"Importantly, our blood test can analyze NTM DNA fragments in the bloodstream, thereby inferring a drug response, which is crucial for rapidly determining treatment plans, capabilities traditional diagnostic approaches cannot achieve."

From Science Daily Mar. 14, 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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