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infer

[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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When combined with current financial data, the model can infer a level of context about a person’s private life that many fail to realize, Bellini explained.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

And recently, rapidly advancing artificial-intelligence technologies that can analyze the massive digital dossiers about us and infer nearly everything about us.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 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

By comparing these ratios with those found closer to home, researchers can infer what kind of environment produced the comet.

From Science Daily May 8, 2026

For my science project, I’m going to make a model of the moon’s surface and perform an experiment to infer how the moon’s impact craters were formed.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

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

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

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 former infers from the particular in a present perception, which in previous perceptions was uniformly connected with other particular contents of perception, to a particular that resembles those other contents of perception.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

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

"For many cosmic-ray events taken together, their energy distribution, arrival-direction pattern and statistically inferred composition provide important clues about where these particles come from and how they are accelerated."

From Science Daily Jun. 9, 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

Treasury yields as traders responded to Middle East developments and inferred a hawkish read from this week’s Fed meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

Or we provide our own radioactively labeled gases and see if they are converted into organic matter, in which case small Martians are inferred.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

It’s not even a case of inferring reality from a dog that didn’t bark.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 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

However, Stas acknowledges that the companion is still inferring and reflecting back a user’s cues.

From Slate Sep. 25, 2025

The other is growing the right branches, that is, inferring how the words are supposed to join up in phrases.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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