as in deduction
an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning
that seems like a reasonable inference, but in this case it happens to be incorrect
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Recent Examples of inference
The company added that as artificial intelligence evolves from large-scale model training to agentic AI, which repeatedly performs real-time inference across various service environments, demand for memory is expected to continue growing.
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Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
Enterprise infrastructure planners should take note: agentic AI isn't just an inference problem.
—Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026
There’s this subtle inference of all the real estate development and how that’s its own industry that is ever-expanding and kind of non-stop.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
The result is that some companies are finding their inference costs are soaring.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
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Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
Enterprise infrastructure planners should take note: agentic AI isn't just an inference problem.
—Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2026
There’s this subtle inference of all the real estate development and how that’s its own industry that is ever-expanding and kind of non-stop.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
The result is that some companies are finding their inference costs are soaring.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inference
Noun
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The 20% small-business deduction was made permanent in the 2025 Republican tax and spending bill.—
Justin Papp,
CNBC,
22 Apr. 2026
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Higher-income households captured the largest OBBBA benefits through SALT deductions and bracket changes, while the gas price shock hits hardest at the bottom.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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McFarlane’s first interim spell obviously represents far too small a sample to draw any definitive conclusions about his tactical style.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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The 2025 paper comes to the conclusion that the result wouldn’t be great.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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When the skyscraper where Rayburn and his family lives is destroyed in an explosion, Creasy attempts to regain his military prowess in his determination to protect Rayburn’s rebellious teen daughter Poe (Billie Boullet), who has been targeted by the terrorists.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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The villain, though, is not Michael Jackson but his father, Joe, whose determination to get his boys out of Gary, Indiana, turns into something more poisonous.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Inference.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inference. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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