inferring

present participle of infer

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Recent Examples of inferring This allows engineers to collect information directly from within the battery rather than inferring its condition through external measurements alone. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026 The platform should generate MCP tools at runtime, discovering sources, inferring schema semantics and exposing them to agents without manual configuration while updating the ontology in near real time. Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Large language models are extraordinarily good at inferring context clues—in this case, the user’s name, professional background, and likely objections—and tailoring output accordingly. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026 His real talent seemed to be inferring some of the more mundane details of my life. Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025 Like detectives reconstructing a crime scene or archaeologists inferring the entire shape of a pot from a minimal number of fragments, scholars of historical linguistics figure out the earlier forms that must have given rise to words in many different languages and connect the dots between them. Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025 State-of-the-art frame interpolation methods generate intermediate frames by inferring object motions in the image from consecutive key-frames. IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inferring
Verb
  • Adoring the outcome means deriving joy from seeing the success of others.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • But deriving a unified theory of volcanism will require a geologic Manhattan Project.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • The bank reiterated its buy rating on the data services stock and raised its 12-month price target to $540 from $450, implying 23% upside from Wednesday's close.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
  • What outrages Marylanders is that this diabolical plan excludes the Preakness, devaluing it and implying the Triple Crown is irrelevant, if not dead.
    Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Reading is a huge part of my job — understanding a character, deep diving into the soul of another person.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The science of the product becomes inseparable from the science of understanding the customer.
    Andy Nguyen, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano confirmed the new proposal, indicating a potential compromise between €60 million and €80 million.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But an image included in the post features what appears to be a mockup soccer badge, indicating that Small Axe might be making a soccer game that goes head-to-head with EA Sports FC.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Many broadcasting managers nationwide made a grave mistake in the last 20 years by deciding that expertise was not needed to report traffic.
    Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The court must evaluate both sides before deciding whether the case moves forward.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Wilde thanked producer Megan Ellison at Annapurna for getting on board with her desire to get the film into cinemas, and agreeing to accept A24‘s theatrical offer, hinting that the streamers had gone higher.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The Justice Department returned the phone in May, hinting that the investigation would be dropped, the Associated Press reported.
    Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The reading, which will detail inflation in July, arrives days after government data showed unexpected job losses last month, suggesting strain on the economy as a months-long bout of elevated price hikes weighed on shoppers.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • By suggesting that Black women would willingly place their own children in mortal danger for profit, such narratives provided yet another means of humiliating, degrading and dehumanizing African Americans.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Inferring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferring. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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