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conjecturing

verb

present participle of conjecture

as in estimating

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 guessing

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 conjecturing The moment prompted extensive online speculation, with some social media users and commentators conjecturing that his words may have been critical or disrespectful. — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025

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The shrinkage could be even more than his team is estimating based on measurements from NASA's Messenger spacecraft in the 2010s.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
The shrinkage could be even more than his team is estimating based on measurements from NASA’s Messenger spacecraft in the 2010s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of estimating

Verb

Director Chloe Okuno builds an atmosphere of dread, keeps the audience guessing and subtly underlines the film’s message about gaslighting and misogyny.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Sep. 2026
One payment beats guessing whether a message is safe to click, reply to, or pay through.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of guessing

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This relatively new digital tool, the next generation of the SEO audit, goes far beyond calculating your brand’s rank.

— Michelle Mekky, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
The grand jury soundly rejected that legal theory, nor did the state abide by it when calculating how much was owed to the federal government.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of calculating

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Paying attention to these factors can provide a useful starting point rather than assuming one solution will work for everyone.

— Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
However, Ujiié cautioned against assuming any simple relationship between a species’ genetic identity and its shell chirality.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of assuming

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Also figuring prominently in the proceedings is the cleric’s acolyte Alyce (Thomasin McKenzie, Jojo Rabbit), a fictional character representing the many women who took part in the movement.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
At a time when figuring it out fast is needed, the empty gas light has been on for several days.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of figuring

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More recently, other experts have advised American farmers to go all out growing soybeans, supposing they will be needed by the Chinese or somebody.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Even supposing the pledges in the 1990s documents amounted to a crime, the legal deadline for bringing mortgage fraud charges has expired.

— Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025

Definition of supposing

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Inflation has remained sticky and above central-bank targets over the past year, making further policy tightening unsurprising, according to the UBS CEO.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
The Sphagnum mosses that surround me arose some 14 million years ago, the descendants of mosses that evolved 400 million years ago, making their lineage older than the coal seams that runs through the deep mountains.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of making

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Meta was facing the prospect of truly massive damages in the California case with some speculating that the ultimate number could have gone as high as $200 billion.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
Frank Sierawski didn't set out to discover a multibillion-dollar market for speculating on when people with life insurance policies will die.

— Vito Emanuel, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026

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