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being or provable by reasoning in which the conclusion follows necessarily from given information
there is only inferential evidence that the ancient site was used for celebrations of the summer solstice
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Recent Examples of inferential
These regions offer us inferential clues about others’ health or genetic fitness, which ample evolutionary theories suggest are drivers of physical attraction.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
In financial services, inferential statistics are used in similar ways.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
And so an inferential reasoning abides.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Kirk also recited a flurry of mostly inferential data to suggest that Turning Point Action was crucial to flipping Arizona and played a major role in Trump’s eight-point gain in support among Black men.
—Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
One story is the imagined story of a lab leak, and the other is the inferential story of a zoonotic spillover.
—Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
This is an inferential claim, and is thus subject to the usual limitations.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
But in many feats of machine learning, for which Bayesian probability theory often serves as the inferential engine, the prior assumptions instilled by a model’s architects play a critical role in its interpretation of its observations.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
Lacking a smoking gun, prosecutors used two cooperating witnesses, Jeremy Bertino and Matthew Greene, to make what amounted to an inferential case that the five defendants had worked together to violently subvert the democratic process.
—Zach Montague, New York Times, 4 May 2023
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
In financial services, inferential statistics are used in similar ways.
—Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
And so an inferential reasoning abides.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2025
Kirk also recited a flurry of mostly inferential data to suggest that Turning Point Action was crucial to flipping Arizona and played a major role in Trump’s eight-point gain in support among Black men.
—Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
One story is the imagined story of a lab leak, and the other is the inferential story of a zoonotic spillover.
—Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
This is an inferential claim, and is thus subject to the usual limitations.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
But in many feats of machine learning, for which Bayesian probability theory often serves as the inferential engine, the prior assumptions instilled by a model’s architects play a critical role in its interpretation of its observations.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
Lacking a smoking gun, prosecutors used two cooperating witnesses, Jeremy Bertino and Matthew Greene, to make what amounted to an inferential case that the five defendants had worked together to violently subvert the democratic process.
—Zach Montague, New York Times, 4 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inferential
Adjective
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That would be demonstrated if general relativity is derivable from quantum gravity.—
Amanda Gefter,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Sep. 2024
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That would be demonstrated if general relativity is derivable from quantum gravity.—
Amanda Gefter,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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There are logic puzzles and perspective puzzles, games of deductive reasoning and careful planning, physics toys and narrative knots.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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One of his most significant contributions was introducing new mathematical tools to model and incorporate a priori data—which relies on deductive reasoning to make predictions—to address signal recovery challenges.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Oct. 2024
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“Inferential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferential. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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