Sentence examples for Infer from inspiring English sources

'infer' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is often used to mean to draw a conclusion or make an educated guess based on evidence or reasoning. Example: From her body language and tone of voice, I could infer that she was upset about something.

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Infer

verb

To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

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They're able to infer human intentions by reading body language and odour, to the extent that they can smell oncoming seizures in epileptics and diabetics.

But knowing what I do, I infer a sombre, if not quite funereal, purpose to the place.

The Resolution Foundation avoids sketching out what the human implications of this consumer credit crunch might be, but they're not hard to infer: red-letter bills, forced sales of homes, and a rise in repossessions.

To take things further, what if the same data can be used to infer how active you've been in the bedroom too?

It concluded that it would be unsafe to infer from mortality statistics that there was any particular number of avoidable or unnecessary deaths at the trust.

A spokesman for Hunt said the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority had issued a clarification on the report Butler mentioned, tempering its conclusions by stressing that "modelling results should not be used to determine actual dredge material movement or be used to infer where sediment could be dispersed and deposited or its ecological significance".

You don't need to be a psychologist to infer that Alexander, who is 24 but looks about 16, sees himself as the little boy.

Japan's conduct, rather than the programme itself, lead the court to infer that their primary motivation was not scientific and therefore the country was in breach of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW).

We infer that new construction in warm regions represents a growth in supply, rather than demand, from the fact that prices are generally falling relative to the rest of the country.

Scraping such information off social networks and combining it with data drawn from sites for searching, shopping, downloading, streaming or whatever lets social marketers infer all they need to know about most individuals.

In answer to a question as to what would happen in the event that the policy failed, Russell said that a war before Russia had nuclear weapons would be less disastrous than one after she had them—he did not infer from this that a war should be started straightaway.

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