infer
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The judge would have to infer guilt from the fact that stories contained private information, and, he claimed, Mail journalists had a "propensity" to use unlawful methods.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Any reasonable person can infer that these transactions are bribes.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
AI Inbox prioritizes messages using signals such as people you email frequently and relationships it can infer from the message content.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
That said, without knowing the precise number of revisions, it would be difficult for anyone to infer from the post exactly what the BLS was set to release.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
However, when we find evidence that the same wild ancestor was domesticated independently in different areas, we infer that the crop spread too slowly to preempt its domestication elsewhere.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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