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
• Judge Wall told the jury not to make any inferences from that fact.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 July 2023
• What, for instance, are the inferences the kids are making about how the toy works?
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• As time goes on, if there's a pattern of those, then the inference gets even stronger.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2023
• 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 Senate, too, would be free to draw such inferences.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• The law develops by these leaps of logic and inference.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 24 June 2022
• But this was a small town, and inference and gossip did not keep many secrets.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• So is there an inference to be made from that or is that just an observation.
  — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 29 May 2019
• The inference is clear: His body may be betraying him, but his mind is not.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• Both sides rely on inferences drawn from fact patterns that align only one way.
  — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• 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
• The last bit of the process—something like that cat-identifying software—is the inference phase.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 26 June 2021
• And both think the other’s inferences are a lot of Hannibaloney.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• 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
• Stankey didn’t mention Netflix by name, but the inference was clear.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 26 Jan. 2022
• That way, all those little details necessary for inference don't get lost in the process.
  — Greta Good, Chron, 28 June 2021
• Those memos, too, though, said the answer was a matter of structure and inference.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• The inference is that report will become a roadmap for further unionization.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• Haley twist those inferences beyond the point of recognition.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024