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as in to derive
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
he inferred that she had left because her coat was gone
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as in to indicate
to convey an idea indirectly
the results infer that there might be a problem with one piece of the equipment
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Recent Examples of infer
Complex, meandering text forces crawlers to infer meaning.
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Vin Sonpal,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
The goal is to infer key soil parameters, including nitrate, mineral nitrogen, moisture, and other indicators that can guide fertilizer decisions.
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Maurizio Arseni,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2026
The phrasing is widely believed to infer the next move would be a cut.
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Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
Traders had to infer what the Fed was doing with its benchmark lending rate based on market movements.
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Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
17 May 2026
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Vin Sonpal,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
The goal is to infer key soil parameters, including nitrate, mineral nitrogen, moisture, and other indicators that can guide fertilizer decisions.
—
Maurizio Arseni,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2026
The phrasing is widely believed to infer the next move would be a cut.
—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
Traders had to infer what the Fed was doing with its benchmark lending rate based on market movements.
—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
17 May 2026
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Naturally occurring tax revenues derived from economic growth would help obviate the need for Springfield’s seemingly endless quests for novel fees and tax ideas.
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This gives the roots a knotty appearance from which its common name is derived.
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Though Kim stressed the new warship was a completely domestic product, Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said the pace of shipbuilding could indicate otherwise.
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Nienhuis said Billy Mansfield previously indicated there could be more bodies in Hernando, Pasco and Pinellas counties, but investigators were unable to reach an agreement that would have provided additional information in exchange for reduced charges.
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These reports present your income and spending habits with clean, easy-to-understand visualizations.
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Raised in Rio de Janeiro, Burle Marx understood the country’s abundance as both subject and material.
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His focus on taming inflation implied the opposite.
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His kingdom, the gesture implied, was already full.
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Attorneys for the Justice Department asked Cooper for more time to respond to Beatty, saying the Kennedy Center is still deciding how to proceed.
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Lucky decides to take Mason to his first baseball game in Atlanta, only to encounter a series of complications and setbacks for which fatherhood, grief, and economic barriers are a distinct part of the Black American experience.
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Christensen suggests the state should instead focus on stripping back environmental regulations that make brush clearance and fire prevention costly, which would ensure state firefighters are not working excessive overtime and the state budget is not being stretched beyond its means.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for a major expansion of the country's naval forces, suggesting the regime should build two large warships each year for the next five years.
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Stickler may or may not have hinted about the end of the relationship in April, joking about an ex-boyfriend.
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Parker also hinted that her girls have inherited her (and her character Carrie Bradshaw’s) love of shoes in a throwback photo of her posing in between her daughters.
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“Infer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infer. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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