How to Use conjecture in a Sentence

conjecture

1 of 2 noun
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  • Most of the book is conjecture, not fact.
  • The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions.
  • But progress on the twin primes conjecture has stalled.
    — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
  • His jump to LiveStyle was the source of some conjecture at the time.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
  • To be clear, there is more than a little conjecture here.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 30 July 2023
  • If the conjecture could be proved true, so would the famed theorem.
    — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • There are a lot of rumors and conjecture at the company.
    — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • If that came out to be nonzero, the Smale conjecture would false.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Quite where the blame lies for the rapid unspooling of all that Ajax had built is open to conjecture.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • With the two sharing same agent, there long had been conjecture of a package deal.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
  • This idea came to be called the local-global conjecture.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Of course, all of this is conjecture until the lockout ends and teams are allowed to talk to free agents again.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 25 Feb. 2022
  • All of this has led to much conjecture over Thomas’ future.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • And that's the rub: That knee-jerk conjecture takes place out of context.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2018
  • In addition to this conjecture, some think the name has to do with the city's bustling music scene.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 4 June 2018
  • The conjecture is that this was a cabin built by the Maclaren party to winter over.
    — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The notion that this strain is more transmissible is just conjecture at this point.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Still, all of that conjecture doesn’t take up much space in Ryder’s mind.
    — Pat Rooney, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
  • Those are the objective facts, and the rest is built on conjecture and reputation.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • There’s a lot of conjecture, there’s a lot of opinion, and there’s too little facts.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • So, for the moment, the talk about what the Suns or James Jones plan to do is pure conjecture.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • Still, a proof of the conjecture for all numbers eludes mathematicians to this day.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
  • But there is conjecture around just how organic that nickname is.
    — Rod McGuirk, ajc, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Anything from her is either a complete lie or total conjecture on her part.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The twin primes conjecture concerns pairs of prime numbers with a difference of 2.
    — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
  • But again, this is all just conjecture and speculation.
    — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 8 Aug. 2017
  • And that's not mere conjecture: at least one spy had already been captured, tortured, and killed.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The clinic does not, in any way, shape, or conjecture, perform abortions.
    — Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic, 29 June 2022
  • Now, these words simply be dismissed as hearsay, conjecture.
    — SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • There are studies that are very poor quality, or conjecture.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 30 June 2020
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conjecture

2 of 2 verb
  • Some have conjectured that the distant planet could sustain life.
  • We only conjecture about his motives.
  • The biologist conjectures that a scavenger ate the rest of the remains.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
  • It's also conjectured that her six children have kept her busy.
    — Fox News, 27 July 2018
  • Historians conjecture that the boats were intended to carry souls to the next world.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 9 June 2019
  • Anyone who might conjecture that Stahl is getting ready to step away from the program would be mistaken.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Scheel narrates the scene, conjecturing that Heidi is hunting for crab in her mind’s eye.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Rather than allow the mind to reel and conjecture, provide information to support a valid response.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • How much of what’s in the film is drawn from people hypothesizing, conjecturing, and how much is from interviews and the book?
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Bagans conjectures that the falls by Jensen and this man and the claims about children falling into a well – all at the same location – may link these deaths to a single source.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2023
  • In the absence of any definitive explanation, we are left to conjecture.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, linguists now conjecture that language first arose among hominids to fulfill that most fundamental of impulses: the need to lie.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The result is a strange alchemy of imagined past, misunderstood present, and weirdly conjectured future.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The actuaries conjecture that the reason is that the healthiest members of each age group live the longest, and as the number of survivors shrinks, the wealth factor becomes less crucial.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • I am anxious to conjecture beforehand what may be expected from the sowing turneps [sic] in jaded ground, how much from the acre, & how large they will be?
    — Thomas Jefferson, letter, 29 Dec. 1794
  • The film conjectures that mushrooms are a large part of the reason humans and other species exist, because of their ability to decompose and create the conditions necessary for new life.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Wall Street analysts conjectured about blockbuster sales.
    — Katie Thomas and Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2016
  • After releasing the once-in-a-lifetime bull trout, the excited fishing partners conjectured about its massive size.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Archaeologists conjecture that the famous Hindu temple had been destroyed and rebuilt at least five times.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
  • For each of these moonshines, the researchers conjectured, there is a string theory like the one in monstrous moonshine, in which the mock modular form counts the string states and the group captures the model’s symmetry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2015
  • Even if scientists can still only conjecture about the origins of metabolism, these new results offer hope that answers may be in reach — if researchers ask the right questions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Before the new ep drops on Thursday, Vulture is wildly conjecturing below.
    — Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
  • It’s not unreasonable to conjecture that some families have shifted their protein choices in response.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Preservationists angrily reject the mayor’s figures, conjecturing a far lower cost to keep the bridge open just for pedestrians and bikes.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Mathematicians have conjectured that the sausage pack is optimal for up to n = 55 balls.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 6 June 2023
  • Some economists conjecture that savings from the higher unemployment benefits are giving these workers some breathing room to look for better work.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Viewers have had a lot of fun conjecturing about what exactly would be happening from episode to episode, and there were plenty of unanswered questions after the season 1 finale.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Hedetniemi conjectured that whichever of the two carry-over colorings uses fewer colors is, in fact, the best possible way to color the tensor graph.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2019
  • Experts conjecture that over the millennia as many as 50 percent of all the people who ever lived may have died of mosquito-borne diseases.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 5 Aug. 2020
  • As colliders and detectors have failed to turn up the particles these theories conjecture, the models have been tweaked and ever-larger colliders and detectors have been put to work testing them.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018

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