infer
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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
Wearables shine LEDs into your skin, monitoring blood pumping through your veins to infer heart rate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
One might infer, as Baier suggested in his Friday interview, that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are thus effectively contained.
From Slate ● May 18, 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
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For many men, vulnerability frequently infers fragility, weakness and, perhaps in Gyllenhaal’s case, artistic insecurity.
From Salon ● May 27, 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
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
The large and generalizing mind infers the whole from a single circumstance, and is reproved by all around for its presumptuous judgment.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
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
That case, the company said, “related to an engineer following inaccurate advice that an AI tool inferred from an outdated internal wiki,” and none involved “AI-written code.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Similar tribal organization in the past is inferred from archaeological evidence of settlements that were substantial but lacked the archaeological hallmarks of chiefdoms that I shall explain below.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
"You can see the effects clearly, but the real challenge is inferring the hidden cause."
From Science Daily ● May 6, 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
Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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