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.
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Surmise
/sɜːˈmaɪz/
Synonyms for "surmise" (142 found)
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provisionally acceptreckonregardreputerisk assumingrough guesssaysenseset down asset of postulatesshotspeculatespeculationstabsupposalsupposesupposingsuppositionsuspectsuspiciontaketake fortake for grantedtake ittake to betheorizetheorythesisthinktrowunderstandunderstandingunverified suppositionventure a guessview asweenwild guessworking hypothesis
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pure guessworkrandom guessing
Noun(8 words)
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Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible.
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"What do you think of my theory?" "It is all surmise."
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We see in nature the cycling or spiralling of things. Subsequently, we can surmise that a being may have such cycling or spiralling of life and death by some element, soul or consciousness stream, of that being. My father, before his death, told me that he would be reborn through "mind" transmigration in a new body, a baby, in a different world, "planet," he clarified. There, he would live a new life. Everywhere in nature, there is cycling or spiralling.
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