infer
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Wearables shine LEDs into your skin, monitoring blood pumping through your veins to infer heart rate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 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
One might infer, as Baier suggested in his Friday interview, that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are thus effectively contained.
From Slate • May 18, 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
Although we are warned that some of these will dissolve varnish, paint, and synthetic fabrics, we are presumably to infer that the human skin is impervious to chemicals.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing infer
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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