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as in estimated
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement
he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less
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as in assumed
to form an opinion from little or no evidence
you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit
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Recent Examples of conjectured
Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
That’s because cutting-edge encryption shrouds information behind mathematical problems (such as factoring enormous numbers) that are conjectured to be unsolvable in any practical amount of time.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjectured
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Restoring the Qianlong Garden took more than two decades, a costly and painstaking process based on a 2000 cooperation agreement signed by the World Monuments Fund and the museum, which estimated a price tag of $15-18 million.—
Fred He,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Nineteenth-century reporters could be extremely casual with facts and guessed at the spelling of names.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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After the album dropped, Jason spoke with Travis, 35, about the song on their New Heights podcast — and guessed at what tree his own manhood would be.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Alongside Tomer-Yerushalmi, other senior legal officials in the military prosecutor’s office are also implicated in the leak and its alleged cover-up.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Court records indicate this was Crouch’s ninth arrest within the county – the most recent being one day before he was slapped with a higher bond amount over the alleged assault charges.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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How CalFresh cuts will play out for families Under federal rules, SNAP benefits are calculated by subtracting 30% of a household’s net income from the maximum benefit for that household size.—
JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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This date was calculated based on the latest 30 years of climatological data available.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Nov. 2025
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More recently, Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing populist who assumed office in 2019, got along famously with the similarly minded Trump during the last two years of the American president’s first term.—
Ron Kampeas,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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When preparing to host Thanksgiving, it's assumed that hand towels are going to be a necessity in both the kitchen, powder room, and guest bathrooms.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
8 Aug. 2025
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The people who could’ve helped, who maybe were genuinely interested, never figured it out.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Spanberger’s background also figured heavily into her victory.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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What else are we supposed to do?—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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If successful, this productive force— supposed to be restorative, in at least some visions—would grow up in symbiosis with primitive fossil capital.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Conjectured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjectured. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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