Both Uses of
conjecture
in
Native Speaker
- Mostly they were focused on me, whispering, nodding, conjecturing on who I was.
*conjecturing = forming conclusions (or guesses) based on inconclusive evidence
- They run old footage of John Kwang from various points during his career, almost a retrospective as though he has died, and as the reporter conjectures on what effect this accident will have on his council seat they splice in frames of the salon room where we sat, the interior of his sedan, the spidery crack on her side of the windshield.†
Definition:
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(conjecture) a conclusion or opinion based on inconclusive evidence; or the act of forming of such a conclusion or opinioneditor's notes: A conjecture can be widely believed, but the word is also frequently used to imply that evidence is insufficient to support a belief.