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infer

[in-fur] / ɪnˈfɜr /


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By examining the chemical fingerprints inside these old stars, scientists can infer what the first stars were like and how they began enriching the cosmos with its earliest chemical elements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Both Steinbeck and Zoe Kazan infer that something happened to Cathy when she was very young.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Location data is any kind of data which can be used to infer a person's location.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

I wouldn’t, however, infer too much from the outcome in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Most people would look at this correlation and infer an obvious cause-and-effect relationship.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

One way Caballero infers this is by comparing Treasury yields to swaps, derivatives used to manage interest exposure that serve as a sort of benchmark corporate borrowing rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

Estonia's NLP algorithms break down a request into small segments, identify key words, and from that infers what user wants.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2024

"The depth infers that it's probably natural. Natural events typically occur at those depths," Salvage said at the time.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2023

Mr. Thornton infers that the elder Daniel returned to Ireland, and that Daniel the younger, and Captain John Gookin, were his sons.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Meink didn’t say, but the range can be inferred from published accounts about the kinds of space-control weapons that Russia or China has launched and tested.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But when intent is inferred, intent to destroy the group “must be the only reasonable inference which can be drawn from the pattern of conduct.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

That behavior does not fit the pattern inferred for Venus, where absorption falls sharply between 365 and 455 nm.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Lawyers for Rockstar said there was nothing in the signatures that could identify them as union members, but Oram told the tribunal it could be "inferred" who was by those who handed in the petition.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

A sign is that from which something else is inferred, for example murder from blood.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

This argument would essentially function as a variation on the so-called dormant commerce clause by inferring implied constitutional constraints on states’ sovereign powers.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

A senior living alone might not fully understand what the robot in the corner is observing, inferring or reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

It is easy to envisage Nunez as the architect of chaos, inferring much of what he does is instinctive rather than calculated.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024

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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