conjecture

The first problem we run into is that assessing the economic effects of the wealth tax is an exercise in conjecture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

For those of us who haven’t thought about math since high school, the recent events have taught us about Erdős problems, the Jacobian conjecture and a phenomenon known as “finite-time blowup.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Schnoebelen said that while the speculating on the origins of the statue is all conjecture at this point, she does enjoy the attention the statue has brought to this particular period of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

There has been a lot of conjecture about what caused such a precipitous decline.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Meanwhile, conjectures about the impact of a deal or non-deal have proliferated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

But we have reached the point where famous math conjectures that stood for decades seem to be falling every day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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

He also told me, apropos of conjectures about White House insider trading: “This particular kind of trading — hour by hour on tariff changes — doesn’t strike me as likely, but who knows?!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

He spent several days as if he were bewitched, softly repeating to himself a string of fearful conjectures without giving credit to his own understanding.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

International master George Koltanowski conjectured that Bobby just didn’t trust people and didn’t want to be cheated: “There’s a word for it in German: Verfolgungswahnsinn,” he said.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

We tune in for the fighting, assigning meaning to each expression, conjecturing about what happens when the cameras are off.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2021

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Mostly they were focused on me, whispering, nodding, conjecturing on who I was.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee