infer
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"This shows that people using static measures such as transcription levels to infer what's happening with autophagy need to be really careful about their interpretations," said Moreno.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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
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
Given this background, one could infer, if one did not know it already, the general structure of Oceanic society.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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One way Caballero infers this is by comparing Treasury yields to swaps, derivatives used to manage interest exposure that serve as a sort of benchmark corporate borrowing rate.
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
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
It observes, experiments, and infers; but it makes no claim to the possession of absolute truth.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
This effectively alters the cosmic ruler used to measure distances and, in turn, the value of the Hubble constant inferred from the model, helping to ease the Hubble tension.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Neutral rates cannot be directly observed, and instead must be inferred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
The usual reasoning is instead circular: because technological differences exist, the existence of corresponding ideological differences is inferred.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Not all of the King's speech needed inferring.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
This practice of inferring the motivations and intentions of others is classic thin-slicing.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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