conjecture

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All the confident conjecture aside, no one really knows how the revolution in artificial intelligence will play out in the coming decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The legal team representing the Angolan defendants say there isn't sufficient evidence against them and that "the accusation is based on mere conjecture".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

His defence team countered that Duterte had murdered no one and that the prosecution's argument was based on "hearsay" and "conjecture", falling far short of the bar needed to confirm the charges against him.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Nearly everything else ever written about the family is conjecture spun from the scraps of information that exist, such as Shakespeare’s will leaving nothing to his wife other than “his second-best bed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

One would avoid these problems if what I call the chronology protection conjecture holds.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking