How to Use inference in a Sentence

inference

noun

• 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
• As time goes on, if there's a pattern of those, then the inference gets even stronger.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Judge Wall told the jury not to make any inferences from that fact.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2023
• The Senate, too, would be free to draw such inferences.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• What, for instance, are the inferences the kids are making about how the toy works?
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• The inference is that Shi’s team, a year after the mine workers died, may have taken the virus back to Wuhan.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• This query is your whisper, and this is where the inference process begins.
  — Moran Zavdi, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Luba did not mention Bauer’s name, but the inference was clear: The Dodgers could have had him as one of their pieces.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But some inferences can be made about whether Trump will visit Palm Beach in the coming months.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 20 Apr. 2017
• The inference seemed to be Brown isn’t part of the team’s inner circle of decision-makers in the same way as Tatum.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• But this was a small town, and inference and gossip did not keep many secrets.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• There’s also an inference that Pappas spent way too much time on the work.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
• 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
• And on and on it goes, the innuendo, the inference, the nuance, crystal balls, tarot cards, tea leaves.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• The inference from Cook and Maestri is that pricing moves and trade ins, while never bedrock, weren't fleeting moves to briefly goose sales.
  — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2019
• There’s evidence—or, at least, inference—for each of these outcomes in the record.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• Stankey didn’t mention Netflix by name, but the inference was clear.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• The last bit of the process—something like that cat-identifying software—is the inference phase.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 26 June 2021
• The inference is that the better the playing talent, the better the manager.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
• There will be tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of these modular data centers that do inference at the edges spread all over the place.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• By comparing a group of people who see a list that includes the sensitive statement to a group who sees a list without it, inferences can be made about the prevalence of that private opinion in the population.
  — Erica Pandey, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024