How to Use infer in a Sentence

infer

verb
  • Are you inferring that I'm wrong?
  • It's difficult to infer how these changes will affect ordinary citizens.
  • People start to infer meaning from the gap, even when there isn’t any.
    — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The phrasing is widely believed to infer the next move would be a cut.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 20 May 2026
  • That data enables Meta to infer what users might buy.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Allowing the young group to shy away from the pressure would infer there was a way out.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2022
  • These can be measured to infer the state of each qubit that's part of the logical qubit.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
  • What else can be inferred from a coach that’s constantly taking risks?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • So from that one would infer that there would be a lot of genetic variation.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
  • Scientists could only infer the number of teeth on many of the gears.
    — Tony Freeth, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Behavior is one of the hardest things to infer from the fossil record.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Any such hope, the reader is left to infer, will come from people like the ones living their lives in this book.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Once trained, the system could be fed partial data and infer what the rest was likely to be.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Our task in conversation isn’t just to infer what others want to say.
    — N.j. Enfield, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • First, the team set out to investigate whether people infer guilt from anger.
    — Hbs Working Knowledge, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Many studies infer that the Spinosaurus waded in waters near the shore for a quick bite to eat.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • That’s inferred, not the work of the author, who takes pains to avoid any hint of partisanship.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • Thursday’s news might only be the tip of the iceberg, Porter inferred.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers compared early dog genomes to ancient wolves to infer where the first dogs might have evolved.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2022
  • It can also be inferred that Nolan will at least get his fair share of Imax screens — for about two weeks.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
  • His real talent seemed to be inferring some of the more mundane details of my life.
    — Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Previous work had to take down the sculpture first and infer from a pile of bricks what the sculpture may have looked like.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The devices infer from this location data the sag across the span to which they are attached.
    — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • In this case, the team used it to infer the existence of a dark object causing the effect.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Astronomers can use that stretch to infer how long the signal has been traveling, and thus, when the first stars flicked on.
    — Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
  • That means wind speeds could be used to infer the strength of these exoplanets' magnetic fields.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 June 2026
  • Tim Hortons could use the data its app gathered to infer where users lived, worked, and traveled.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Aug. 2022
  • By design, these tools see far more of what users do online, and can even infer why a user is acting in certain ways.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • By design, these tools see far more of what users do online, and can even infer why a user is acting in certain ways.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Cutting back to the blank face, the viewer will likely infer that the person is hungry or sad, or happy.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025

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