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Conjecture
"Conjecture" in a Sentence (16 examples)
In any case, you are wrong in your conjecture.
We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate.
The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact.
There was a great deal of conjecture as to what would happen.
Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely.
That's pure conjecture.
To all those among them who were capable of reflection, it was evident that these phantasms and sounds proceeded from Pan, who must have some cause of anger against them: but what that cause could be, they were at a loss to conjecture.
The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.
However, that was just my conjecture.
Tom claims he proved Goldbach's conjecture.
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I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h.
February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)
"Most likely he who is the shorter of the two;—no! he goes in the first, and is, of course, the eldest; but we have no time for conjecturing now." Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
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