infer

In a sentence

Six example sentences with infer, each labelled with its topic.

• From tree rings alone the team could infer three droughts that no written record from the region mentions.

  Science

• Analysts inferred a coming price cut from the sudden jump in inventory and the quiet cancellation of a factory order.

  Finance

• Archaeologists infer a long siege from the grain stores, the sealed wells, and the rubble packed against the gate.

  History

• Hume asked whether we may infer tomorrow's sunrise from every sunrise so far, and found no argument that would do it.

  Philosophy

• Toddlers infer what an adult wants from where the adult is looking, well before they can follow spoken directions.

  Psychology

• From the center's early lean, the guard inferred that the screen was coming late and slipped past it.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains infer. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• retained
• acceleration
• prospect
• creation
• identical
• justified
• route
• constituent
• acknowledged
• adaptive
• external
• posing