conjecture

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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

The controversy over that runoff election has been a subject of tantalizing conjecture for nearly three decades, ever since U.S.

From Seattle Times

In “Benjamin Banneker and Us,” I often yearned to know whose voice I was hearing: a cousin’s conjecture, a contemporaneous account, a belief of Webster’s?

From Washington Post

China has long denied that the virus came from the market or a lab, and instead has floated conjectures that it originated abroad.

From Washington Post

Similar lawsuits from regulators and patients could collectively yield tens of millions of dollars in settlements and judgments, Knoepfler conjectures.

From Los Angeles Times