conjectural

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"It's a conjectural but plausible evolutionary theory - one that can't be proven, but makes sense," says Anoop Misra, who heads Delhi's Fortis-C-DOC Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

The court sided with the officers, saying that the township failed to demonstrate “real, not conjectural, harm” by using the flag and that the ban “addresses that harm in a direct and material way.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Although these hazards are so far entirely conjectural, they are undoubtedly driving a growing community of researchers to study various harm-reduction tactics.

From Scientific American • Apr. 4, 2023

Royster’s writing is sometimes conjectural, other times pedantic, but in many passages her prose soars, particularly in her chapter on Valerie June.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

All relied on the weight disparity between isotopes 235 and 238, but all were experimental, and their potential for industrial-scale production conjectural.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik