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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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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
Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2026
Some legal observers have conjectured the 8th Circuit’s reversal of her injunction prompted her to stay her hand, over a concern that the appeals court would overrule her again.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
In 1952, Ankeny and Chowla conjectured that just as the maximum gets higher and higher as the number of integers in the original set gets bigger, the minimum should get lower and lower.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
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
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Mathematicians are still working out the consequences of the theorem, which was originally conjectured by Louis Mordell in 1922.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2026
Some legal observers have conjectured the 8th Circuit’s reversal of her injunction prompted her to stay her hand, over a concern that the appeals court would overrule her again.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
In 1952, Ankeny and Chowla conjectured that just as the maximum gets higher and higher as the number of integers in the original set gets bigger, the minimum should get lower and lower.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjectured
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Dulgeroff estimated that closing the La Jolla Rec Center would result in a budget reduction of $231,975.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Sources claim the vessel is simply too large for the billionaire to manage, with operating costs estimated at around $30 million per year.—
Allison DeGrushe,
StyleCaster,
13 May 2026
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Avoid PINs that can be easily guessed, such as a string of the same consecutive numbers.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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Schnitzer guessed the driver might not have seen the little boy.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
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In March, Israel dropped charges against five soldiers who had been accused of beating and sodomizing a Palestinian detainee in an alleged assault partially caught on camera.—
Sam Mednick,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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The court documents also revealed alleged phone records between Williams and Tyler Huff, who was Tobias and Da'Liyla's father, and who was in prison at the time.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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While the city has calculated SB 79 will require allowing 367,000 more housing units near transit stops, Vonblum said that number may come down marginally when the city calculates potential units developers could build near transit stops under Complete Communities.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2026
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The researchers calculated how long such solar destruction of debris in Mercury’s orbit takes and arrived at a timescale of about four million years.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
8 May 2026
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The state paid $13 million in cash for Waterbury and assumed $22 million in liabilities.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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However, the expansion assumed that the state had a nearly $100 billion surplus, which never materialized.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
9 May 2026
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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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This didn’t become common practice until a few hundred years ago, but at least one Neanderthal apparently figured it out and convinced someone to go along with it.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Distraught by life in the South, Reed figured that the only way to escape his parochial childhood was to write his way out.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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Not supposed to talk about affairs in Vegas?—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Gary Lineker once missed a game for Spurs because of an injury sustained in a cricket match he was not supposed to be playing in, and Gary and Phil Neville are still considered the ones that got away by Lancashire because of their cricketing prowess.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
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“Conjectured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjectured. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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