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How to use infer in a sentence

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Infer means to introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. Example: “I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.”

Examples of infer by meaning

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

  • It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.2010 October 7, “Keep calm, but don't carry on”, in The Economist

More sentences with infer

  • I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.From the entry faulty
  • He bumptiously introduced himself and subsequently inferred himself as the topic of conversation.From the entry bumptiously
  • A polygon was superimposed on the inferred fault network.From the entry superimposed
  • The Ancient North-Eurasians are a ghost population whose existence can be inferred from analysis of European and Native American genes.From the entry ghost population
  • But by inferring sleep, the etymology also undersells Siberia's scope, both real and imagined.2020, Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, page 12. From the entry undersell
  • JDK9 added support for the diamond operator in anonymous classes if the inferred types are denotable.2018, Kishori Sharan, Java Language Features. From the entry denotable
  • You cannot use the diamond operator with anonymous classes—even in JDK9—if the inferred types are non-denotable.2018, Kishori Sharan, Java Language Features. From the entry denotable
  • One might infer that Dame Helen is a tocophobe: someone with a severe fear of childbirth.2018 February 2, George F. Winter, “Tocophobia”, in British Journal of Midwifery, volume 26, number 2, →DOI. From the entry tokophobe
  • In this case I am obliged to infer a metapsychic phenomenon.2017, Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry metapsychic
  • Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN. From the entry sclera
  • Children use the criteria to conceptualize the mental state and to infer its presence or absence.2016, Nick Chown, Understanding and Evaluating Autism Theory, →ISBN, page 245. From the entry criteriological
  • She inferred what happened: the atmosphere of Yuggoth was composed of SeeTee matter. ¶ SeeTee.2010, Richard A. Lupoff, “Nothing Personal”, in Darrell Schweitzer, editor, Cthulhu’s Reign, →ISBN. From the entry seetee
  • In these measures, strength of preference is inferred by degree of vasocongestive response.2007 December 22, Daniel Brian Krupp, “Through Evolution’s Eyes: Extracting Mate Preferences by Linking Visual Attention to Adaptive…. From the entry vasocongestive
  • It would be wrong to infer from this, however, that an improvisation is beyond any control.2004, Niels Lehmann, Janek Szatkowski, “Theatrical Virtuality – Virtual Theatricality”, in Peter Andersen, Lars Qvortrup, editors, Virtual…. From the entry rôle-play
  • Pale and medium gray bands show inferred "normal" and magmatically elevated thermal gradients, respectively.2000 March 31, Bradley R. Hacker et al., “Hot and Dry Deep Crustal Xenoliths from Tibet”, in Science, volume 287, number 5462, →DOI, pages…. From the entry magmatically
  • We must infer that God does not know of the existence of our sublunary world.1946, Bertrand Russell, “Aristotle’s Metaphysics”, in History of Western Philosophy […], London: George Allen and Unwin, →OCLC, book 1…. From the entry sublunary
  • Customers in Padgett Street did not generally, one might infer, express approval on the score of dearness.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry dearness
  • The proceedings of one neighborhood cannot in the least be inferred from those of another.1905 December 8, “The Russian Empire—and After?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry clear-sighted
  • A tatum represents the lowest regular pulse train that a listener intuitively infers from the timing of perceived musical events (segments).2023, Spotify, “Reference / Tracks / Get Track's Audio Analysis”, in Spotify for Developers - Web API Reference, archived from the…. From the entry tatum
  • For now, such leftover debris fields may be the best chance for astronomers to infer the existence of ploonets.2021 April, Randall Hyman, “The galaxy's marvelous rogues and misfits”, in Astronomy, page 22. From the entry ploonet
  • Yet such racialism was built upon the data of philology, inferring discrete racial groups from different speech varieties.2020, Will Abberley, “Philology, Anglo-Saxonism, and Nation”, in Joanne Parker, Corinna Wagner, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Victorian…. From the entry racialism
  • We don’t really know, but some tangential studies infer it’s to do with a mixture of personality, status-signalling and group identification.2017 May 30, David Steele, “Why do pedants pedant?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry pedant
  • Although our data cannot help explain why this occurs, we infer that microfluctuations in accommodation contribute to VA instability.2015 July 29, “Mesopic Functional Visual Acuity in Normal Subjects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry microfluctuation
  • Subsequently this infers that Australovenator and megaraptorids alike possessed a unique manus function most likely associated with predation.2015 September 15, “Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry megaraptorids
  • Latent smudges may be usable to infer recently and frequently touched areas of the screen – a form of information leakage.2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”…. From the entry smudge attack
  • This all leaves me wondering why Audi denies that the reflecter infers the conclusion of reflection from the beliefs of reflection.2007, Mark Timmons, John Greco, Alfred R. Mele, Rationality and the Good, page 25. From the entry reflecter
  • One thing that can be inferred is that "Ghosts", a very shippy episode, apparently didn't scare (pun intended) any viewers away.1999 January 7, storml...@hotmail.com, “Re: X-Files Ratings For Terms of Endearment”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet). From the entry shippy
  • Sir Jeremy Morse suggested zoophysiologists (inferred from the Funk & Wagnalls unabridged word zoophysiology) and the inferred word untrustworthier.[1995 August, “Extending Francis”, in Word Ways, volume 28, number 3, page 151. From the entry untrustworthier
  • I do not say or infer that Mr.1979 June 21, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs, Nomination of Rowland G. Freeman III: Hearing Before the…. From the entry mispromise
  • Markus inferred that the aschematic women were just as likely to think of themselves as being independent as dependent.1933, Steven Penrod, Social Psychology, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 133, →ISBN. From the entry aschematic
  • The warrantlessness of the suit may, in many instances, be so obvious as that malice may be inferred from it.1920, {unattributed}, The Southwestern Reporter, Volumes 221-222. From the entry warrantlessness
  • His experiments led him to infer that the boiling point of the substance is probably below 9 degrees absolute.1903, Ice and Refrigeration, volume 24, page 49. From the entry absolute
  • It can be inferred from that, that French companies receive special treatment from the Côte d’Ivoiran government, mostly in the form of favorable contracts.2017 April, Cameron D. Pickett, “Discussion”, in French Political Economic Interests in Francophone Africa […] (Senior Honors Projects…. From the entry Côte d'Ivoiran
  • We have inferred a similar theory of prosodic history from the uncertainty and irregularity of pre-Rowleyan prosody as compared to Rowley's correctness.2015, Donald S. Taylor, Thomas Chatterton's Art: Experiments in Imagined History, page 114. From the entry Rowleyan
  • In this case, the HABC results infer long-term persistence of populations in isolated refugia for all three species, even when allowing for postisolation migration.2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in…. From the entry postisolation
  • If we infer that a method has an effective unsafe annotation, then this method is invisible to and uncallable by untrusted clients.2009, Atul Prakash, Information Systems Security: 5th International Conference, page 303. From the entry uncallable
  • The metaperspective aims to assess the degree to which one relationship member can accurately infer the other member's closeness, commitment, and complementarity.2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social psychology in sport. From the entry metaperspective
  • The two minus signs indicate that neither the start-tag nor the end-tag may be omitted (even if the omitted markup could be unambiguously inferred).1995, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Lou Burnard, “The Design of the TEI Encoding Scheme”, in Computers and the Humanities, volume 29, number 1…. From the entry blort
  • Although he did not actually note the union of the amoebulæ, he inferred that the young plasmodia seen in his cultures arose from their fusion.1928 December, H. J. Howard, “President's Address”, in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, volume XII, Norwich…. From the entry amebula

Meaning of infer

  1. verb To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
  2. verb To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.
  3. verb To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.

Full definition of infer

Questions about infer in a sentence

How do you use infer in a sentence?
Infer is used as a verb. For example: “I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.”
What is a short sentence with infer?
“I do not say or infer that Mr.”
What does infer mean?
Infer means to introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

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