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conjecture

(= speculation) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) speculations about the outcome of the election he dismissed it as mere conjecture (= suppose) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence (= guess) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

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conjecture · verb

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Simple sentences

In any case, you are wrong in your conjecture.
The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact.
There was a great deal of conjecture as to what would happen.
However, that was just my conjecture.

Movie subtitles

That's pure conjecture, of course. from someone on the inside.
Objection. That's a matter of conjecture.
What Mrs. French knew or did not know is pure conjecture on Janet McKenzie's part.
We have only, and again, my apologies, Colonel Casey your conjecture.
Then what you've told me so far is pure conjecture?
But it'd be conjecture, not proof.
This is mostly conjecture. The head was badly damaged.
Conjecture is useless.
Will you stop this rambling conjecture and get out of my way!
Miss Debenham's inclusion is pure conjecture.
It is an interesting conjecture.
Only surmise and wild conjecture.
How can we? Well, if our conjecture is correct, and the girl's name is.
The prosecution has suggested a possible motive but one based on hearsay, conjecture and circumstantial evidence.
My conjecture is that he'll be murdered!
That's a matter of conjecture.
What Mrs French knew or did not know is pure conjecture on Janet McKenzie's part.
I can say, it does open up a fascinating area for conjecture.
The law operates on evidence, not conjecture.
Just a guess. Only conjecture. I'll most likely be proved wrong.
Conjecture, captain, rather than explanation.
Some conjecture in the college paper about offering me a full professorship.
I'm standing right here waiting for reasons, logic. not conjecture.
This is a conjecture that you arrived at from the.
Gentlemen, there is no need for all this conjecture. Let's go in.
Pure conjecture.
It was conjecture, love.
Only conjecture.
That's pure conjecture.
Now, I will conjecture, I find them to myself what my conjecture is correct.
There is certainly an image in the book of a naked man and a naked woman, Everything else is conjecture.
He swam ashore. lt is my conjecture that he has gone to catch a train to London.
It's a topic of great conjecture.
That's fascinating but it is pure conjecture.
And he lost himself in a labyrinth of notions, conjecture and suppositions.

News and current affairs

The Great Recession of 2008-2009 suggests that China can no longer afford to treat the Four Uns as theoretical conjecture.
We could only conjecture what would have happened if it had not postponed the day of reckoning for so long - or if it had tried to put it off further.
Of course, one can only hope that such a scenario remains pure conjecture.
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
Market participants might conjecture that the program would be abandoned once it reached an alarming size - and well before the target was achieved.
Second, Krugman's claim that a vastly larger fiscal stimulus would have generated a more rapid economic recovery in the US depends entirely on conjecture.
A few years later, the global financial crisis erupted, and these statements, once idle conjecture, became the basis for an urgent action plan.

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