How to Use inference in a Sentence

inference

noun

• What inference can we draw from these facts?
• The program uses records of past purchases to make inferences about what customers will buy in the future.
• Its existence is only known by inference.
• Nvidia is no slouch in inference.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
• Most of the inferences in that profile were wrong.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
• Groq closed the inference gap in the ecosystem.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
• As time goes on, if there's a pattern of those, then the inference gets even stronger.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
• This meant that all of the inference was done at the edge, on device, rather than in the cloud.
  — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Judge Wall told the jury not to make any inferences from that fact.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2023
• But this was a small town, and inference and gossip did not keep many secrets.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• This query is your whisper, and this is where the inference process begins.
  — Moran Zavdi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The inference, plainly, is that is not the case at the moment.
  — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• What, for instance, are the inferences the kids are making about how the toy works?
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• Always ask what the basis for an inference is.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• So is there an inference to be made from that or is that just an observation.
  — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 29 May 2019
• First, inference costs scale with usage.
  — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• There’s also an inference that Pappas spent way too much time on the work.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
• The early errors were real but the inference from them was all wrong.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• So if that brain isn’t yours, the only way to tell what’s going on inside it is inference.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
• In the old days, that would have been taboo for a booster to make inferences about paying athletes.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• Everyone chased the cloud—until inference costs punched them in the face.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Stankey didn’t mention Netflix by name, but the inference was clear.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• There’s evidence—or, at least, inference—for each of these outcomes in the record.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• Of course, five hours of screaming-fast inference processing doesn't come cheap.
  — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
• The inference was that the club is more likely to be a buyer than a seller at this year’s deadline.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2025
• My inference is that is where the fees for this litigation are coming from.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• Those runs are paused during the day, when inference workloads increase.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• An agent can run thousands in parallel, at machine speed, for the price of inference.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• The second is inference, which is the day-to-day use of AI models.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 5 June 2025
• Some of these inferences may not be entirely secure.
  — Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026