infer
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Wearables shine LEDs into your skin, monitoring blood pumping through your veins to infer heart rate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 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
Scientists infer its existence because gravity around galaxies appears stronger than visible matter alone can explain.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
One might infer, as Baier suggested in his Friday interview, that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are thus effectively contained.
From Slate • May 18, 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
Vocabulary lists containing infer
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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