conjecture
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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
The study introduces what the authors call the "entropy conjecture" to highlight a key problem in many existing arguments.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
The list of clubs seeking new managers, or pondering the futures of those they currently employ, could make this a non-stop summer of managerial conjecture involving those from the top right down to the bottom.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
She averred they were a mystery to herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing conjecture
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Grade 12, List 2
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