inferring

present participle of infer

Example Sentences

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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
  • There is just enough wry humor—think Shaun of the Dead—sprinkled throughout to keep things from getting too grim, often deriving from Bryan’s cluelessness and general lack of skills.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The Chiefs finished dead last in the NFL with 362 yards deriving from explosive rushes last season.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But the less strictly technical procedure Serra describes is analogous to operations at stake in Jonas’s own work, implying that the act of measurement by walking and seeing is tacitly existential.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Manuel Bompard, a deputy of the French National Assembly who is also a member of France Unbowed, rebuked Macron by name for implying that his party was responsible for the chaos.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Under the memorandum of understanding the two sides signed in June that collapsed within days, Iran's nuclear program was meant to be discussed over a 60-day period.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Still, understanding your own reason for saying yes or no can make the decision much easier.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The strikes targeted militant hideouts at two locations, with initial reports indicating 22 militants had been killed, Pakistan's Ministry of Information said.
    — MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • During that meeting, officials showcased data indicating that the number of violent incidents was lower last year compared to the year before, even accounting for a sharp enrollment decline.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Release can begin with simply deciding not to keep feeding the same pattern.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Below, Forbes Coaches Council members share their advice for evaluating tough user feedback and deciding what to preserve, discard or rebuild.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Over the last week, its official Instagram account has hosted a series of vignette teasers hinting to potential locations of the next stretch.
    — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The performance underscores the capability of Nvidia's chips, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinting that OpenAI will be using even more computing power from the company going forward.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For example, the national median home price increased about 2% year-over-year as of August, suggesting that homes are becoming more expensive and seemingly at odds with reduced demand from buyers.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Many of those deals would have likely kicked into high gear in fiscal 2026, suggesting more growth in the business is to come.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026

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“Inferring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferring. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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