Conjecture can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| conjecture - To guess; to venture an unproven idea. | ||
Noun |
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| conjecture - reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | ||
| conjecture - a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | ||
| conjecture - a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture" |
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| 1. | noun | He dismissed it as mere conjecture. | |
| 2. | noun | In any case, you are wrong in your conjecture. | |
| 3. | noun | We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate. | |
| 4. | noun | The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact. | |
| 5. | noun | There was a great deal of conjecture as to what would happen. | |
| 6. | noun | Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely. | |
| 7. | noun | That's pure conjecture. | |
| 8. | noun | To all those among them who were capable of reflection, it was evident that these phantasms and sounds proceeded from Pan, who must have some cause of anger against them: but what that cause could be, they were at a loss to conjecture. | |
| 9. | noun | The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. | |
| 10. | noun | However, that was just my conjecture. | |
| 11. | noun | Tom claims he proved Goldbach's conjecture. | |
| 12. | noun | Tom spent 30 years trying to prove the Beal conjecture. | |
| 13. | noun | Tom wants to win a Nobel Prize for proving Brocard's conjecture. | |
| 14. | noun | If you had to hazard a conjecture as to where Tom might go if he wanted to hide, where would you say? | |
| 15. | noun | It's an entertaining result, though it's a mystery to me how it occurred to anyone to pose it as a conjecture in the first place. |
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| He dismissed it as mere conjecture. |
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| In any case, you are wrong in your conjecture. | |
| We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate. | |
| The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact. | |
| There was a great deal of conjecture as to what would happen. | |
| Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely. | |
| That's pure conjecture. | |
| To all those among them who were capable of reflection, it was evident that these phantasms and sounds proceeded from Pan, who must have some cause of anger against them: but what that cause could be, they were at a loss to conjecture. | |
| The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. | |
| However, that was just my conjecture. | |
| Tom claims he proved Goldbach's conjecture. | |
| Tom spent 30 years trying to prove the Beal conjecture. | |
| Tom wants to win a Nobel Prize for proving Brocard's conjecture. | |
| If you had to hazard a conjecture as to where Tom might go if he wanted to hide, where would you say? | |
| It's an entertaining result, though it's a mystery to me how it occurred to anyone to pose it as a conjecture in the first place. | |