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
• 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
• Setting aside the clumsy inference—after all, nobody asked for this—we’ve already seen what fans can expect when an NFL coach is asked to momentarily divert his attention from the task at hand.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024