as in deduction
an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning
that seems like a reasonable inference, but in this case it happens to be incorrect
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Recent Examples of inference
Nvidia will also tap the startup’s inference technology, which offers high throughput and low latency for running large language models and other AI workloads.
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Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
What Parents Need To Know About ‘The SpongeBob Movie’
The movie has a PG rating, and rightly so, because some of the humor and inferences can sometimes be a bit provocative for younger viewers—or might just go over their head.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 19 Dec. 2025
Inside a secure environment, the Nvidia or Intel hardware that NEAR uses automatically decrypts the query, the model runs inference on it, and it is sent back in an encrypted form.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 10 Dec. 2025
These models are unknowable—black boxes with anthropomorphic traits, but that are ultimately a series of complex calculations and statistical inferences based on mind-boggling sums of training data; much of that information was taken without express permission from its creators.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2025
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The new senior deduction of up to $6,000 will help offset federal taxes on benefits at tax time.—
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That sum is the amounts received by interactive sports wagering operators from sports wagers as authorized under state law, less the amounts paid as winnings before any deductions for expenses, fees, or taxes.—
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With Donna’s Banishment seeming almost a forgone conclusion, Cumming summoned the players back to a special morning edition of the Roundtable to just get the inevitable out of the way.—
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Ball certainly didn’t have any issue getting into the action, posting a team-best 11 first-quarter points on the strength of making his first three attempts and banking in a running 3-pointer off the glass at the buzzer, signaling the conclusion of the game’s initial 12 minutes.—
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Like her unprecedented sapphire engagement ring, her wedding tiara represented a determination to stay true to herself.—
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Here in California, our determination to defend our own laws, to hold fast to climate protections and civil rights, felt no longer like partisanship but survival.—
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“Inference.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inference. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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