All 4 Uses of
conjecture
in
The Bourne Identity
- He piled conjecture on top of conjecture, heaven knows how warped by alcohol.†
Chpt 14 *
- He piled conjecture on top of conjecture, heaven knows how warped by alcohol.†
Chpt 14
- The article was, in fact, two articles-an odd mixture of fact and conjecture, speculations taking over where evidence came to an end.†
Chpt 18
- Were the other conjectures merely phantoms, compounded fragments of familiar images he had convinced himself might be Carlos?†
Chpt 29conjectures = guesses (opinions based on inconclusive evidence)
Definition:
a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinion
A conjecture can be widely believed, but the word is also frequently used to imply that evidence is insufficient to support a belief.