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While much of the conjecture around Stokes has been on his future as captain, England will once again experience the impact of his absence as a player.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

Our research supports this conjecture, as we found that companies with more cheap stock experienced lower stock returns over longer horizons after going public.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Most people who tackled this problem tried to prove Erdős’s conjecture, rather than disprove it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Additionally, multiple commentators conjecture that his hostility to wind originated in 2011, when he groused that an offshore wind farm would be visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Joe learned everything true and untrue, founded and unfounded, every ugly conjecture.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Leaving the hard numbers aside, conjectures about the effects of AI on individual companies are exactly that — conjectures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

"This unprecedentedly clear signal of the black hole merger known as GW250114 puts to the test some of our most important conjectures about black holes and gravitational waves," Isi said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

A lawyer for the New Jersey senator said the justice department claims were "baseless" and "bizarre conjectures".

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

So to conclude: conjectures about advanced or intelligent life are on a far shakier ground than those about simple life.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023

Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Erdős conjectured that the maximum number of pairs, suggested by a gridlike system, could increase only slightly faster than the number of dots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

The Kiel researchers conjectured that exporters didn’t absorb the tariff costs for three main reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

But, for an elusive conjectured class of materials, physicists have now shown that the surface previously thought to be "featureless" holds an unmistakable signature that could lead to the first definitive observation.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2024

“Is there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence—a formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,” they ask of the world’s disparate phenomena.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023

Continuing in this vein, Neylan conjectured, “Ernest’s very modesty angered him ... I think he hated Ernest because Ernest was so kind to him.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The outlay had some crypto followers conjecturing that he meant to consolidate the industry in his own hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

"Rather than conjecturing whether Xi would restrain actions before the party congress, it is more realistic to analyse its daily military activities and make preparations accordingly," the official added.

From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2022

Seattle needs leadership that will solve Seattle’s problems, not shameless conjecturing to tilt the playing field.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Even the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, talked about "insurgent math," conjecturing that for every innocent person killed, the U.S. created 10 new enemies.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2021

They had a pleasant five minutes conjecturing about how much was in the bank.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith