dead reckonings

Definition of dead reckoningsnext
plural of dead reckoning
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Noun
  • And even King Charles and Queen Camilla are faced with these speculations.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 3 May 2026
  • While some had theories, including speculations of the site serving as an Underground Railroad route, researchers found little evidence to back those ideas up.
    Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Out of these theories, the last seemed the most speculative, personal, and, therefore, pertinent.
    Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • There are fan theories that at least part of Vought Rising will take place after the events of The Boys, where the WWII-era flashbacks will be the other half of the show.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • The humans would explore — surfacing hypotheses, chasing hunches, venturing into territory the data didn’t obviously support.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • To achieve this, domain experts need to provide their most sophisticated hypotheses and command the AI to find the failure points.
    Syed Ahmad, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Read more about that here and check out theses photos of the behemoth that carries rockets around the space center.
    Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The discipline has built a vast array of empirical theses deep inside this single ideology—liberalism—and, in doing so, has naturalized it.
    Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Conducting a soil test will eliminate the guesswork when choosing the right type and amount of fertilizer for your trees, as using too much fertilizer or the incorrect type can severely damage them.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 10 May 2026
  • Use a Tape Measure A tape measure eliminates the guesswork when figuring out how far apart to plant tomatoes.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2026
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“Dead reckonings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20reckonings. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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