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

Here is what I infer of the president’s logic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 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

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