How to Use inference in a Sentence

inference

noun
Definition of inferencenext
Synonyms for inferencenext
  • What inference can we draw from these facts?
  • The program uses records of past purchases to make inferences about what customers will buy in the future.
  • Its existence is only known by inference.
  • This meant that all of the inference was done at the edge, on device, rather than in the cloud.
    — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The inference is that this was a one-off deal for Bradford.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • Judge Wall told the jury not to make any inferences from that fact.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • As time goes on, if there's a pattern of those, then the inference gets even stronger.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • What, for instance, are the inferences the kids are making about how the toy works?
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The Senate, too, would be free to draw such inferences.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • In the old days, that would have been taboo for a booster to make inferences about paying athletes.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • But this was a small town, and inference and gossip did not keep many secrets.
    — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The law develops by these leaps of logic and inference.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • So is there an inference to be made from that or is that just an observation.
    — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 29 May 2019
  • So if that brain isn’t yours, the only way to tell what’s going on inside it is inference.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The inference is clear: His body may be betraying him, but his mind is not.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
  • And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
    — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • The last bit of the process—something like that cat-identifying software—is the inference phase.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 26 June 2021
  • So, cops will be making stops that most affect those with the least based on an inference applicable to the rich.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2019
  • And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
    — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
  • In the end we are left with a web of unhealed inferences, the lava of guilt and grief slowly covering both women.
    — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Both sides rely on inferences drawn from fact patterns that align only one way.
    — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The inference was that the drug was administered in the Nome dog yard, in Safety or both.
    — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Stankey didn’t mention Netflix by name, but the inference was clear.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Those memos, too, though, said the answer was a matter of structure and inference.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • That way, all those little details necessary for inference don't get lost in the process.
    — Greta Good, Chron, 28 June 2021
  • There’s evidence—or, at least, inference—for each of these outcomes in the record.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • And yet the inference to many monkeys is still unwarranted.
    — Philip Goff, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2021
  • The record put forth by the majority is based on inferences built upon presumptions and hearsay.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
  • But many of these articles will come with the inference that stress is inherently bad.
    — Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Then, there’s the cost of inference — or producing each response.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 9 Feb. 2023

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