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infer
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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
  • Do I infer that you are willing to vouch for your niece's good character, Matthew Wood?  (source)
    infer = conclude (through reasoning)
  • 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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  • ...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
  • His inference seemed to be that, me being a white Southerner, I was probably also a racist and a redneck.†  (source)
  • But what was one to infer from it ….  (source)
    infer = conclude or guess by reasoning
  • Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.†  (source)
  • Besides, you're inferring that's the, Devil out there.†  (source)
  • From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or the jug.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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."
  • Inferable from these statements, are many collateral subtile matters touching the chase of whales.†  (source)
    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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