How to Use conjecture in a Sentence

conjecture

1 of 2 noun

• Most of the book is conjecture, not fact.
• The biography includes conjectures about the writer's earliest ambitions.
• His jump to LiveStyle was the source of some conjecture at the time.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
• But progress on the twin primes conjecture has stalled.
  — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
• 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
• And that's the rub: That knee-jerk conjecture takes place out of context.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2018
• 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
• If the conjecture could be proved true, so would the famed theorem.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• Alphonse de Polignac posed the conjecture in its current form in 1849.
  — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
• To be clear, there is more than a little conjecture here.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 30 July 2023
• All of this has led to much conjecture over Thomas’ future.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Still, all of that conjecture doesn’t take up much space in Ryder’s mind.
  — Pat Rooney, The Denver Post, 17 June 2019
• 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
• In the summer of 2021, a torrent of new work on the van der Waerden conjecture appeared.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022
• So why is there so much conjecture about the strength/or not of solar cycle 25?
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• With the two sharing same agent, there long had been conjecture of a package deal.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
• There are a lot of rumors and conjecture at the company.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• The conjecture is that this was a cabin built by the Maclaren party to winter over.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
• This idea came to be called the local-global conjecture.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• Ian Agol proved a 1981 conjecture about how to rank the complexity of knots.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• But because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes, any thoughts on the Egyptian’s events and slate would be pure conjecture at the moment.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Last week, the palace sparked more conjecture with a Mother’s Day image of the royal with her three children.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• The twin primes conjecture concerns pairs of prime numbers with a difference of 2.
  — Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
• And that's not mere conjecture: at least one spy had already been captured, tortured, and killed.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2021
• That is conjecture, a gambit that has no place in medicine or any other science.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• This week’s Utes mailbag led off with whether or not Cam Rising is 100% healthy, which is a matter of conjecture.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• On the wild side is conjecture that the symmetrical placement of the Carnac stones occurred as the result of an alien encounter of some kind.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022

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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
• The researchers conjectured this was because of a flaw in the machine learning systems.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
• 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
• It's also conjectured that her six children have kept her busy.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2018
• Scheel narrates the scene, conjecturing that Heidi is hunting for crab in her mind’s eye.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 12 Oct. 2019
• So a deal might reach $13 million a year, though Sound Transit won’t conjecture about bid values in advance.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 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
• Historians conjecture that the boats were intended to carry souls to the next world.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 9 June 2019
• 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
• Before the Gala, style TikTokers conjectured that this would be one of the more sustainable galas, with stars pulling from archives for Lagerfeld lewks.
  — Vulture, 1 May 2023
• Rather than allow the mind to reel and conjecture, provide information to support a valid response.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• Mathematicians have conjectured that the sausage pack is optimal for up to n = 55 balls.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 6 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Trades conjectured that this late-in-the-year deal means people may be working in Hollywood through the holidays, something almost unheard of by custom.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The result is a strange alchemy of imagined past, misunderstood present, and weirdly conjectured future.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• Cooing over the launch of Tabitha Simmons bridal, many a married guest conjectured bigamy if only to secure the heart-skipping satins, the blush mink slide, or the inky velvet Victorian-style bootie with grosgrain ribbons.
  — Vogue, 8 Sep. 2017
• In the absence of any definitive explanation, we are left to conjecture.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
• Before the new ep drops on Thursday, Vulture is wildly conjecturing below.
  — Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Archaeologists conjecture that the famous Hindu temple had been destroyed and rebuilt at least five times.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
• 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

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