Sample Sentences for
conjecture
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    Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?  (source)
    conjecture = conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence
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    It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.  (source)
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    Besides, some months have elapsed since the commission of his crimes, and no one can conjecture to what place he has wandered or what region he may now inhabit.  (source)
    conjecture = guess
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    I conjecture that the names they represent are in the Security Chiefs data storage location.  (source)
    conjecture = conclude or guess based on inconclusive evidence
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    [of days until he will fly again] "Three days C. B.," conjectures Kat.  (source)
    conjectures = guesses
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    "It must have melted into stone," Father conjectured.  (source)
    conjectured = concluded or guessed based on inconclusive evidence
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    Mostly they were focused on me, whispering, nodding, conjecturing on who I was.  (source)
    conjecturing = forming conclusions (or guesses) based on inconclusive evidence
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    Though the dates given are often conjectural, especially for the Second Age, they deserve attention.  (source)
    conjectural = based on inconclusive evidence
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    These were all the verses that could be deciphered; the rest, the writing being worm-eaten, were handed over to one of the Academicians to make out their meaning conjecturally.†  (source)
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    Whether or not he acted alone is a matter of conjecture.  (source)
    conjecture = not known for sure -- guessing or forming a conclusion based on inconclusive evidence
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    Finally out of Nanny's talk and her own conjectures she made a sort of comfort for herself.  (source)
    conjectures = conclusions or opinions based on inconclusive evidence
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    "I guess the ideal thing," I conjectured, half dreaming, "would have been to get clothes with good, deep pockets."  (source)
    conjectured = concluded
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    rapture of so much amateur conjecturing and surmising would flush their faces as irrepressibly as blood!†  (source)
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