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.
• 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
• The inference is that this was a one-off deal for Bradford.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• As time goes on, if there's a pattern of those, then the inference gets even stronger.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Judge Wall told the jury not to make any inferences from that fact.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2023
• The Senate, too, would be free to draw such inferences.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• What, for instance, are the inferences the kids are making about how the toy works?
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• The inference is that Shi’s team, a year after the mine workers died, may have taken the virus back to Wuhan.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• This query is your whisper, and this is where the inference process begins.
  — Moran Zavdi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Luba did not mention Bauer’s name, but the inference was clear: The Dodgers could have had him as one of their pieces.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The inference was that the drug was administered in the Nome dog yard, in Safety or both.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The inference is clear: His body may be betraying him, but his mind is not.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• But some inferences can be made about whether Trump will visit Palm Beach in the coming months.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 20 Apr. 2017
• The inference seemed to be Brown isn’t part of the team’s inner circle of decision-makers in the same way as Tatum.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• But this was a small town, and inference and gossip did not keep many secrets.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• 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
• And on and on it goes, the innuendo, the inference, the nuance, crystal balls, tarot cards, tea leaves.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• There’s evidence—or, at least, inference—for each of these outcomes in the record.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• Stankey didn’t mention Netflix by name, but the inference was clear.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• The last bit of the process—something like that cat-identifying software—is the inference phase.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 26 June 2021
• The law develops by these leaps of logic and inference.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 24 June 2022
• Here’s more on the satellite from Intel, which built the computer chips that perform the A.I. inference.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
• Those memos, too, though, said the answer was a matter of structure and inference.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The not-so-subtle inference was that the Red Sox owners were not as committed, having dropped the team’s payroll out of the upper third of the game.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• So, cops will be making stops that most affect those with the least based on an inference applicable to the rich.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 29 Apr 2024