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
  • Understand that your parents must be deriving some satisfaction from encouraging your brother’s dependency.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Adoring the outcome means deriving joy from seeing the success of others.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • That is a fairly hot SPAC, implying a value for Agility somewhere near $4 billion.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • On Tuesday, Davidson upgraded Duolingo to buy from neutral, lifting its 12-month price target on the stock to $160 from $130, implying 23% upside from Monday's close.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Congressman Jeff Hurd, who represents Colorado’s Third District, said the project could put quantum technology to work in understanding domestic resources.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • For fellow author Marissa Stapley, Telfer’s book is key to understanding why con artists are seen as intriguing — an idea Stapley explored in her 2021 novel, Lucky.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The researchers also found that protons could be stored and released repeatedly, indicating that their contribution was reversible.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Incumbent Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz beat democratic socialist Oliver Larkin, indicating that coastal Florida Democrats are not comfortable leaning left of center.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The decorations actually carry years of family memories, which makes deciding what stays especially personal.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
  • For the industry, replacing the cryptography may be easier than deciding how to implement the migration.
    Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 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
  • Those compounds increased while the astronauts were in space, suggesting food was spending more time moving through their intestines, according to the statement.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • For accessories, those benefits did not explain performance, suggesting that gains arose mainly through cross-selling with destination products.
    Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026

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“Inferring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferring. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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