How to Use infer in a Sentence

infer

verb
Definition of infernext
Synonyms for infernext
  • Are you inferring that I'm wrong?
  • It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens.
  • Those are a few of the lessons that can be inferred from an analysis of what cars are most frequently Googled in every state.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2017
  • That intent became plain after the firing, but even in the moment, it was easily inferred.
    — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 7 June 2017
  • By exposing 179 infants to dozens of samples, scientists could infer which hues looked novel to each child.
    — Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2017
  • Instead of companies inferring information about users from messy data trails, users are telling them their secrets outright.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • In countries where homosexuality is a crime, software which promises to infer sexuality from a face is an alarming prospect.
    — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
  • This alone infers that Satoshi is either already dead or the kind of person who appreciates that the long-term potential of Bitcoin is far more potent than money alone.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Scientists infer a lot from that: that there are hydrothermal chemical reactions similar to those that occur at hot fissures at the ocean bottoms on Earth.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
  • Until Newman, this benefit was construed quite broadly, and could easily be inferred if the tipper and tippee were relatives, friends or even acquaintances.
    — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • While people can disagree on political issues, to infer malicious intent on a charity that has changed so many lives, is not only shameful but truly disgusting.
    — Julianne Pepitone, Town & Country, 12 Sep. 2017
  • From the direction and intensity of the light, IceCube can infer the properties of the original neutrino.
    — Brendan Cole, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2016
  • It can be inferred that U.S. cities will continue to feel the brunt of the wildfire smoke.
    — Darreonna Davis, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • But Sanders inferred that pharma is to blame for poor life expectancy in the U.S. due to the cost of drugs.
    — Rita Numerof, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Allowing the young group to shy away from the pressure would infer there was a way out.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Many studies infer that the Spinosaurus waded in waters near the shore for a quick bite to eat.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Both blind and sighted people inferred movement from the start and stop of sounds.
    — Ione Fine, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2023
  • These can be measured to infer the state of each qubit that's part of the logical qubit.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
  • So things aren’t quite as bad for Roku as one might infer from Monday’s plunge.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Behavior is one of the hardest things to infer from the fossil record.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That’s inferred, not the work of the author, who takes pains to avoid any hint of partisanship.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • The emotional meanings of his work have to be inferred.
    — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2023
  • There is a logic to this: Intentions are hard to infer and easy to lie about.
    — Paul Bloom, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Any such hope, the reader is left to infer, will come from people like the ones living their lives in this book.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Once trained, the system could be fed partial data and infer what the rest was likely to be.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The research used satellite techniques to infer changes to glacier grounding lines based on changes in the height of the glacier's surface.
    — Chris Mooney, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The researchers compared early dog genomes to ancient wolves to infer where the first dogs might have evolved.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2022
  • Previous work had to take down the sculpture first and infer from a pile of bricks what the sculpture may have looked like.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Astronomers can use that stretch to infer how long the signal has been traveling, and thus, when the first stars flicked on.
    — Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
  • MacDonald pleaded guilty to the charge of inferring with a flight crew on March 22.
    — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 2 May 2024

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