as in guessing
to form an opinion from little or no evidence
we surmised that she had purchased the apple pie since there was a bakery box on the kitchen counter
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Competitive Wordle Score The Wordle Bot gets 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating me.
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Once the model is built, it can be used to take a scene constructed by artists and tweak it, making the physics look realistic — not by modeling the physics, but by guessing at them based on absorbing an incredibly large dataset of real-world footage.
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People also tend to confuse fragrance intensity with cleanliness, assuming a strong smell means a deeper clean.
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Investors will take riskier positions, assuming the central bank will save them from their own mistakes.
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Even supposing the pledges in the 1990s documents amounted to a crime, the legal deadline for bringing mortgage fraud charges has expired.
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So Boutros, no doubt suspecting political preconceptions at work, addressed the grand jurors himself.
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Prosecutors argued that Chow acted out of anger after wrongly suspecting Cyrus of stealing the water, according to the AP.
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Though some of the stories focused on their enviable style, much of it was devoted to speculating about their appearance and mental health.
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These markets allow participants to take positions speculating on future events in ways that can resemble trading on privileged information rather than public analysis.
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“Surmising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surmising. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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