as in guesses
an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence
the many conjectures about the true identity of Jack the Ripper
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as in estimates
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement
he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less
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as in assumes
to form an opinion from little or no evidence
you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit
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Recent Examples of conjectures
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
25 May 2026
As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme.
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Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
20 May 2026
Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures.
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Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
The project grew out of group head Ido Kaminer’s 2019 Ramanujan Machine, an AI bot that seeks out new conjectures for calculating mathematical constants.
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Lyndie Chiou,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
With few clear signals about who has influence and how decisions are made, the halls of power in Beijing are fertile ground for political conjectures.
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Deng Yuwen,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Nov. 2025
This is an intense ongoing study and there are many conjectures.
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Literary Hub,
14 Nov. 2025
Amenabar seems to root his screenplay on conjectures about the writer’s sexuality, which many scholars consider latterday projection.
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Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
Benjamin Skuse,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 June 2026
Suspicion fell on Shiite families, though many dismissed these conjectures; in Ain el-Mreisseh, people know their neighbors.
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Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
Broadly speaking, this is why Grothendieck and others could use schemes — and a series of ideas building on them — to re-prove one of the four Weil conjectures and prove two more.
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Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
20 May 2026
Leaving the hard numbers aside, conjectures about the effects of AI on individual companies are exactly that — conjectures.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
There’s no end to conjectures about William Shakespeare’s life because there isn’t all that much definitive Shakespeareana to rake over.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place.
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Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
25 May 2026
As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme.
—
Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
20 May 2026
Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures.
—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
The project grew out of group head Ido Kaminer’s 2019 Ramanujan Machine, an AI bot that seeks out new conjectures for calculating mathematical constants.
—
Lyndie Chiou,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 2026
With few clear signals about who has influence and how decisions are made, the halls of power in Beijing are fertile ground for political conjectures.
—
Deng Yuwen,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Nov. 2025
This is an intense ongoing study and there are many conjectures.
—
Literary Hub,
14 Nov. 2025
Amenabar seems to root his screenplay on conjectures about the writer’s sexuality, which many scholars consider latterday projection.
—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
Humans propose conjectures, guided by intuition.
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Benjamin Skuse,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 June 2026
Suspicion fell on Shiite families, though many dismissed these conjectures; in Ain el-Mreisseh, people know their neighbors.
—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
Broadly speaking, this is why Grothendieck and others could use schemes — and a series of ideas building on them — to re-prove one of the four Weil conjectures and prove two more.
—
Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
20 May 2026
Leaving the hard numbers aside, conjectures about the effects of AI on individual companies are exactly that — conjectures.
—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
There’s no end to conjectures about William Shakespeare’s life because there isn’t all that much definitive Shakespeareana to rake over.
—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjectures
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Competitive Wordle Score Another tie game with four guesses each.
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Zuckerberg has stood up a team that is now working to release its own prediction market app called Arena, which internal documents reviewed by NPR show will allow people to make guesses about future events.
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The United Nations estimates that gang violence has killed over 2,300 people in Haiti since the beginning of this year.
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Using Google Maps, NBC News estimates that the video shows that at least eight apartment blocks have been levelled, along with shops and other stores along the roadside.
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The Gulf, though legally unchanged, now assumes direct Iranian strike risks.
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Photos of the chefs are right there on the packaging, and the service correctly assumes that their reputations will draw you in.
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Now, a wave of new theories offers tantalizing solutions — but which ones portray reality is an open question.
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His theories have won praise in UFO circles but often put him in conflict with academic peers.
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The new 2nd Amendment case figures to be a major test of what kinds of firearms and ammunition are off-limits to state or federal regulation.
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By Saturday the official death toll had climbed past 1,400, with thousands injured and tens of thousands reported missing—figures the authorities acknowledged were still rising.
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This is not true, unless, Miss Manners supposes, your definition of formality begins and ends with having to wear shoes.
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Farrell supposes that no high school baseball team in the nation has traveled as much as Orange Lutheran has.
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The agency calculates the cost to plug them is around $155 million.
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The handicap is determined by a volunteer gathering data in the air and a committee that calculates the maximum airspeed of each craft.
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“Conjectures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjectures. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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