surmising

Example Sentences

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We can certainly understand that she’s supposed to come off as ardent and unyielding, even surmising that she’s unsure of how to love anyone else because of how improperly she’s been loved herself.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

And some were now surmising that we had engineered a vote that would promote women and diminish men, in the process making some kind of statement, though they weren’t clear on exactly what that was.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

I’m fairly confident in saying and surmising that his counsel at the time advised him against it and are probably somewhere saying “told you so.”

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2023

Engoron, surmising that Trump was referring to his clerk, called the comments a "blatant" violation of the gag order.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2023

Someone had discovered the moved sideboard and open door and surmising that the visitor was still in the cave had shut him in.

From The Secret Toll by Thorne, Paul And Mabel