How to Use infer in a Sentence

infer

verb
  • Are you inferring that I'm wrong?
  • It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens.
  • The time delay is proportional to, and can be used to infer, the Hubble constant.
    Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The resulting masses were then used to infer the likely composition.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Green has only allowed that the opening day starter can likely be inferred by counting back in five-day increments from March 29.
    Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Was uranium detected or inferred in that collision's debris?
    Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2018
  • McCartney did say last week that Cousins didn’t take the biggest deal, so that infers the Jets offered more money than the Vikings.
    Peter King, SI.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The mother is Myriam, a French woman who, the reader is meant to infer, has a North African background.
    Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Over the years, many have inferred that the Duchess of Cambridge's wardrobe has paid homage to her late mother-in-law, with some instances being more obvious than others.
    Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2018
  • To test the babies’ logical reasoning — their ability to infer through the process of elimination that the smiley face must be in the cup — the researchers pulled a fast one.
    Amy Ellis Nutt, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • It can be inferred this verse comes on behalf of Kilmonger, the antagonist played by Michael B. Jordan.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The theory is defined as understanding others in the social world, such as inferring their beliefs, desires, and intentions.
    Laney Ruckstuhl, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The Spygate scandal inferred the Patriots cheated to upset St. Louis.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The law applies even in cases where recipients would’ve been able to infer a link to a particular politician, so opposition lawmakers are keeping up the attack.
    Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Eclipses infer fateful yet unpredictable changes, and this particular eclipse will be a snapshot of what’s to come in 2025.
    Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 24 July 2024

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