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verb

past tense of conjecture

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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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Johannes Kepler, the German polymath famous for his laws of planetary motion, conjectured that this arrangement was optimal back in 1611. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026 From there, Langlands conjectured the existence of a family of correspondences between objects, symmetries, and properties. — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026 To be more precise, Erdős conjectured that the number of unit distances would be n^(1+o(1)). — ArsTechnica, 1 June 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 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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In 2024 Max Read, director of civic innovation for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, identified seven such alleged outlets.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Officers were at the Walmart to respond to a call about an alleged shoplifting and encountered two people with a child fleeing from the store into a vehicle, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at the time of the June 14 incident.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026

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To date, it is estimated that some 400,000 people have already succumbed to starvation because of the drought and the fighting.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
Anywhere from 100,000 to more than 200,000 people were estimated in attendance at the Sikh parade the past two previous years.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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Monahan did more digging and found out there were three adult brothers living in Boston who could have owned the canns, and DeAngelis guessed that they were made before Henry Vassall’s death in 1769.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026
That Bell was the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes was still known to only a handful of people, including Robert Louis Stevenson, who had by then guessed the truth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

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Each has assumed a new place of influence within the Democratic Party over the last two years, filling a power vacuum created by President Joe Biden’s exit from the political stage.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2026
Notably, Republican voters’ approval of Congress has dropped from 53% shortly after the GOP assumed control of Washington to 29% today.

— Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumed

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At the beginning of Fatherland, no one—not even the aged Mann, played here in a quietly extraordinary performance by Hanns Zischler—has figured that out.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
Knowing Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ strong affinity for Bamford’s comedy, Apatow figured that would happen.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026

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