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noun

plural of conjecture

as in guesses

an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence the many conjectures about the true identity of Jack the Ripper

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verb

present tense third-person singular of conjecture

as in estimates

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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to form an opinion from little or no evidence you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit

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There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026 As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026 Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026 The project grew out of group head Ido Kaminer’s 2019 Ramanujan Machine, an AI bot that seeks out new conjectures for calculating mathematical constants. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026 With few clear signals about who has influence and how decisions are made, the halls of power in Beijing are fertile ground for political conjectures. — Deng Yuwen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2025 This is an intense ongoing study and there are many conjectures. — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025 Amenabar seems to root his screenplay on conjectures about the writer’s sexuality, which many scholars consider latterday projection. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025

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In two preprints, the pair proved function field versions of both conjectures. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026 Humans propose conjectures, guided by intuition. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 Suspicion fell on Shiite families, though many dismissed these conjectures; in Ain el-Mreisseh, people know their neighbors. — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026 Broadly speaking, this is why Grothendieck and others could use schemes — and a series of ideas building on them — to re-prove one of the four Weil conjectures and prove two more. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026 Leaving the hard numbers aside, conjectures about the effects of AI on individual companies are exactly that — conjectures. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026 There’s no end to conjectures about William Shakespeare’s life because there isn’t all that much definitive Shakespeareana to rake over. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025

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Tests get built around actual user behavior, like scroll depth or device, instead of guesses based on age or location.

— Karan Sharma, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Points were awarded for correct guesses, and a league table was used to track the standings.

— The Athletic Soccer Experts, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of guesses

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Without a direct and blanket statement in the tradition providing a rationale, European and Indian scholars have proposed a variety of theories to explain Hindu divine morphology.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter could be.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

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The family soon moved to a one-bedroom cabin in the nearby town of Locust Ridge, a dwelling that figures proudly in Parton’s rags-to-riches lore.

— Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
Junior quarterback Austin Stennett figures to be better prepared for second season after growing three inches to 5-foot-11 and putting on 20 pounds.

— Bill Scheibe, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of figures

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Essentially a form of computational fluid dynamics, the simulation divides the flow passages into a very large number of tiny regions and calculates things such as velocity, pressure, turbulence, and temperature throughout the component.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
The directors instructed Jantzen earlier this month to develop a plan to overhaul the assessment process after board members raised concerns about how the district calculates the charges.

— Haley Parsley August 28, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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