How to Use conjectural in a Sentence

conjectural

adjective

• Less controversial is the conjectural MQ-L, a huge drone that could fill in for today’s tankers and transports.
  — David Axe, WIRED, 17 July 2009
• For now, however, the role of the microbial seed bank and even its very presence remain conjectural.
  — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
• The dross is the part where Jesus turns to address the poor man directly, like a real person instead of a prop for conjectural argument, and heals his hand.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• In any event, Ferrari’s finances and future become more conjectural with each new model.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• Putin’s thinking has been so far removed from public scrutiny that any answer to that question is very conjectural.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Both estimates were based on a conjectural valuation of FTX at the time of a $420-million venture investing round in January.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• Forecasts about the path to normality and its timing are almost entirely conjectural.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• The same conjectural specificity applies to San Francisco Ballet, which plans to resume performances on Jan. 19.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• From here on out the argument gets extremely conjectural, though lots of the material is fascinating either way.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• In the nineteenth century, greater empirical rigor was brought to the conjectural history that Rousseau had unfolded.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
• Well into the 2010s, technological carbon removal seemed completely conjectural, a nice-to-have but still very notional idea.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
• Royster’s writing is sometimes conjectural, other times pedantic, but in many passages her prose soars, particularly in her chapter on Valerie June.
  — Santi Elijah Holley, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• This is a cautionary tale about interpreting brain size only in the light of retrospectively applied conjectural needs for greater intelligence.
  — Paul Manger, Quartz Africa, 28 June 2019
• Kennedy, meanwhile, occupies a largely conjectural space in history.
  — Benjamin Hedin, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Not mentioned in press accounts: Larsson’s extensions are entirely conjectural.
  — Sigal Samuel, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• The latter is actually somewhat conjectural in regards to archaeology.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2012
• For example, the notion that Manson was a law enforcement or intelligence collaborator beggars belief and remains entirely conjectural.
  — Stephen Phillips, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Physicists are also excited about a highly conjectural connection between moonshine and quantum gravity, the as-yet-undiscovered theory that will unite general relativity and quantum mechanics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2015

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