inferred

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That case, the company said, “related to an engineer following inaccurate advice that an AI tool inferred from an outdated internal wiki,” and none involved “AI-written code.”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

The assessment estimates a measured and indicated resource of 49.6 billion tons, with an inferred resource of 86 billion tons, in a relatively narrow portion of the company’s main property in Saskatchewan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

"If some people have mistakenly inferred that this children's production has any content about the migrant situation which has sparked debate in the UK some nine years later, then their reaction is misplaced."

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

"Previous findings have inferred that they exist, or hinted at their presence, but haven't actually confirmed that material has definitively escaped out into space. We've now managed to do this for the first time."

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2025

In the absence of written records, the evidence of those prehistoric replacements must be sought in the archaeological record or inferred from linguistic evidence.

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