Example Sentences

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"You can see the effects clearly, but the real challenge is inferring the hidden cause."

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

I think, broadly speaking, the film is inferring stuff rather than stating it.

From The Verge • Feb. 21, 2018

The other is growing the right branches, that is, inferring how the words are supposed to join up in phrases.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Rather it is inferring, from the failure of the work in his hand, that he and his colleagues have attempted that which was impossible to be done.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

He is not generalising; he is inferring a particular from particulars.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob