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    Pandora considers which music you like and infers other music you might like. Netflix does something similar with TV shows and movies.
    infers = guesses by reasoning
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    But what was one to infer from it ….  (source)
    infer = conclude or guess by reasoning
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    ...she told him she wanted to become a photographer, like him. No: she wouldn't have told such a lie. That was only what he inferred. What she really said was that she wanted to learn how to make photographic prints from negatives.  (source)
    inferred = concluded by reasoning
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    "It is clearly inferred," replied the Prefect,  (source)
    inferred = concluded by reasoning
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    The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.  (source)
    inference = conclusion (reached by reasoning)
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    Turning a look of mock shock on me, "You don't mean to infer that I talked too much!"  (source)
    infer = suggest
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    And we'll make wrong assumptions, draw incorrect inferences.†  (source)
    inferences = things concluded or guessed by reasoning
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    This practice of inferring the motivations and intentions of others is classic thin-slicing.†  (source)
    inferring = concluding or guessing by reasoning
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    'Twas she I saw: my heart infers That shrinking form was doubtless hers, Which gaint Ráva?†  (source)
    infers = concludes or guesses by reasoning
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    thought not only as I thought but as my forbears thought, while here I had for company one woman whom, for all she was blood kin to me, I did not understand and if what my observation warranted me to believe was true, I did not wish to understand, and another who was so foreign to me and to all that I was that we might have been not only of different races (which we were), not only of different sexes (which we were not), but of different species, speaking no language which the other understood, the very simple words with which we were forced to adjust our days to one another being even less inferential of thought or intention than the sounds which a beast and a bird might make to each other.†  (source)
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    Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.†  (source)
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    Answer To The Text On Which Beza Infereth That The Kingdome Of Christ Began At The Resurrection†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She infereth" in older English, today we say "She infers."
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    Inferable from these statements, are many collateral subtile matters touching the chase of whales.†  (source)
    Inferable = able to be figured out by reasoning
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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