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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

“I didn’t understand your reference to the possible destruction of your career. You didn’t mean to infer that this committee was bringing you here because of any effect on your career?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 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

"We're trying to infer processes from incomplete clues, often with very limited data collected by missions that are extraordinarily expensive and infrequent."

From Science Daily May 12, 2026

“You have to infer the whole dragon from the parts you can see and touch,” the old people would say.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

The process of handling AI-powered search queries is known as "inference," in which a "neural network" loosely modeled on the human brain's biology infers the answer to a question from prior training.

From Reuters Feb. 22, 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

Moreover, his eldest son had now fixed on the cavalry, in which service every step infers very considerable expense.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

“But what can’t be inferred from the index is the future value of those currencies,” added Cox in a video interview from his base in Hong Kong.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Among the biggest mysteries are the surprisingly low concentrations of dark matter found at the centers of some dwarf galaxies and the unexpectedly dense dark matter clumps inferred from strong gravitational lensing.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

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

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

Similar tribal organization in the past is inferred from archaeological evidence of settlements that were substantial but lacked the archaeological hallmarks of chiefdoms that I shall explain below.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

"You can see the effects clearly, but the real challenge is inferring the hidden cause."

From Science Daily May 6, 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

Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.

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




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