infer - use in sentences

Object

  • existence: Somewhere between these two extremes we can infer the existence of a margin.
  • meaning: More advanced learners might enjoy identifying register and reading between the lines to infer meaning.
  • conclusion: It is easy to visualize and infer conclusions from 2D data.

Used with why or when

  • which: If one is to infer which variable affects which, there must be a theory that explains the relationship between the two variables.
  • what: The Panel should not be expected to infer what should be made explicit.

Modifying Another Word

  • reasonably: We may reasonably infer that someone of importance was buried here.
  • correctly: Yes, people may correctly infer that praise for my batting is unlikely.. .
  • readily: What a competent practitioner can infer readily from a task, problem or scenario.

Preposition: from

  • fact: To infer from the fact of Mary being a special object of divine favor that she is therefore sinless is absurd.
  • measurement: The data admit at a 0.6 standard deviation level the parameters of non-Newtonian gravity inferred from geophysical measurements in mines and a tower.
  • sequence: In essence the networks are being inferred from the raw DNA sequence themselves.
  • datum: This poorly known basin is only inferred from gravity data.

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