How to Use conjecture in a Sentence

conjecture

1 of 2 noun

• Most of the book is conjecture, not fact.
• The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions.
• But that’s just conjecture, of course.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
• His jump to LiveStyle was the source of some conjecture at the time.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
• If that came out to be nonzero, the Smale conjecture would false.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• But Cairo’s work shows that Stein’s conjecture is false.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2025
• With the two sharing same agent, there long had been conjecture of a package deal.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
• Still, all of that conjecture doesn’t take up much space in Ryder’s mind.
  — Pat Rooney, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
• There’s a lot of conjecture, there’s a lot of opinion, and there’s too little facts.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• That is conjecture, a gambit that has no place in medicine or any other science.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• Talagrand viewed his conjecture as a challenge rather than a truth to be proved.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
• There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026
• What Spoelstra said such players can’t do is get caught up in the conjecture.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2026
• In addition to this conjecture, some think the name has to do with the city's bustling music scene.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 4 June 2018
• So why is there so much conjecture about the strength/or not of solar cycle 25?
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Quite where the blame lies for the rapid unspooling of all that Ajax had built is open to conjecture.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Of course, all of this is conjecture until the lockout ends and teams are allowed to talk to free agents again.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 25 Feb. 2022
• This is an intense ongoing study and there are many conjectures.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
• In one month, based on this spitball conjecture, that could be $12 billion in fines.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• This isn’t merely a conjecture.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The old world was one of conjecture, miracles and guesswork.
  — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
• The notion that this strain is more transmissible is just conjecture at this point.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• That’s the conjecture of observers, not herself.
  — Steve Goldberg, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2026
• According to this conjecture, life may have been present inside rocks on, say, Mars.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2020
• The conjecture is that this was a cabin built by the Maclaren party to winter over.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• Alphonse de Polignac posed the conjecture in its current form in 1849.
  — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
• The New Heights podcast only ramped up that conjecture.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
• So, for the moment, the talk about what the Suns or James Jones plan to do is pure conjecture.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
• The twin primes conjecture concerns pairs of prime numbers with a difference of 2.
  — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
• For just two or three runners, the conjecture’s proof is elementary.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026

conjecture

2 of 2 verb

• Some have conjectured that the distant planet could sustain life.
• We only conjecture about his motives.
• It's also conjectured that her six children have kept her busy.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2018
• The researchers conjectured this was because of a flaw in the machine learning systems.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
• Scheel narrates the scene, conjecturing that Heidi is hunting for crab in her mind’s eye.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2019
• The biologist conjectures that a scavenger ate the rest of the remains.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
• Anyone who might conjecture that Stahl is getting ready to step away from the program would be mistaken.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
• The look is cool, but since there’s nothing to listen or connect it to, its significance is left to conjecture.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2026
• Historians conjecture that the boats were intended to carry souls to the next world.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 9 June 2019
• To be more precise, Erdős conjectured that the number of unit distances would be n^(1+o(1)).
  — ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
• Which leads to the technical issues Mercedes would not discuss, which leads to conjecture.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• The Kiel researchers conjectured that exporters didn’t absorb the tariff costs for three main reasons.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• Rather than allow the mind to reel and conjecture, provide information to support a valid response.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• How much of what’s in the film is drawn from people hypothesizing, conjecturing, and how much is from interviews and the book?
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
• Or, in some cases with Goodman, might lie within the realm of fantasy, delusion, and conjecture?
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• So a deal might reach $13 million a year, though Sound Transit won’t conjecture about bid values in advance.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019
• In the absence of any definitive explanation, we are left to conjecture.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
• Some task force workers conjectured that the ease of use and convenience of a prepackaged device might prompt more folks to test their drugs, especially those who are younger.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
• Bagans conjectures that the falls by Jensen and this man and the claims about children falling into a well – all at the same location – may link these deaths to a single source.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2023
• After releasing the once-in-a-lifetime bull trout, the excited fishing partners conjectured about its massive size.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
• Before the new ep drops on Thursday, Vulture is wildly conjecturing below.
  — Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
• Whatever secrets the Carruthers still held — how the ship sank, what the last moments might have been like for the crew and who might be still aboard — would remain locked away and left to conjecture.
  — Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Archaeologists conjecture that the famous Hindu temple had been destroyed and rebuilt at least five times.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
• Broadly speaking, this is why Grothendieck and others could use schemes — and a series of ideas building on them — to re-prove one of the four Weil conjectures and prove two more.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
• Trades conjectured that this late-in-the-year deal means people may be working in Hollywood through the holidays, something almost unheard of by custom.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2023
• Even if scientists can still only conjecture about the origins of metabolism, these new results offer hope that answers may be in reach — if researchers ask the right questions.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2020
• Preservationists angrily reject the mayor’s figures, conjecturing a far lower cost to keep the bridge open just for pedestrians and bikes.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• Some mathematicians conjectured that, by and large, such objects are impossible.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• Hedetniemi conjectured that whichever of the two carry-over colorings uses fewer colors is, in fact, the best possible way to color the tensor graph.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2019
• There’s no end to conjectures about William Shakespeare’s life because there isn’t all that much definitive Shakespeareana to rake over.
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025