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verb

past tense of infer

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inferred
Verb
Religious and political labels Data brokers have also inferred people's religious interests and political leanings. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Instead, lawyers inferred it from the language buried inside a document. — Neil Araujo, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The firms declined a skills test at the outset, so the researchers inferred skill gains from random assignment instead of measuring before and after. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026 The Police Department was asking the public to help investigators find Yepez, and police said no determination of criminal responsibility should be inferred. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026 All of these quantities can be inferred with good measurements of the CMB. — Cara Giovanetti, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026 It’s often been said, or at least inferred, that the International Olympic Committee occasionally wishes to market itself as an entity dedicated to proclaiming and restoring peace. — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The discovery of Neptune in 1846 demonstrated that an unseen planet might be inferred from its gravitational effects on other worlds. — Micah Hanks, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The model inferred that Hugging Face might have data on the benchmark and broke into the company’s infrastructure to find it. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inferred
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The Arrowhead 140 is a general-purpose frigate and its design is derived from Denmark’s Iver Huitfeldt-class warships.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • There’s a week in the novel during which Lee goes to San Francisco that is implied but not described.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • New consumer research suggests the shift is more deliberate, and more compatible with luxury growth, than early coverage implied.
    — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • But theme and amusement parks — despite the warnings that accompany most any attraction — enter an unspoken contract with their guests.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • For most insiders, the issue comes from the top, but this unspoken mandate for skinny seems almost unshakeable.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Running has historically been understood as an affordable sport.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
  • But the methodology Benson and her co-authors used to reach those conclusions 21 years ago has not been generally understood.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • To that point, some advisers indicated to Semafor that the results rolling in so far were not surprising to them.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • But polls indicated that the economy — not crime — was the top concern for North Carolina voters this year.
    — Colin Campbell, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Likely voters who decided which candidate to support only recently in seven key Senate races favor Republicans despite an overall Democratic advantage, according to a new poll released Sunday night.
    — Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026
  • During a trip to visit one of their company’s labs, the couple decided that the region would be the perfect home to a winery resort.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Detroit Lions linebacker Jack Campbell remained hospitalized on Monday as team officials hinted that the standout defender was recovering from a scary injury suffered a day earlier.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Three years ago, in a Q&A with Deadline’s Dominic Patten about his bestselling memoir and a desire to do King Lear, the constantly working Stewart hinted a more projects on screen, stage and possibly page to come.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Inferred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferred. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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