How to Use conjectural in a Sentence

conjectural

adjective
  • For now, however, the role of the microbial seed bank and even its very presence remain conjectural.
    — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • In any event, Ferrari’s finances and future become more conjectural with each new model.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Putin’s thinking has been so far removed from public scrutiny that any answer to that question is very conjectural.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Less controversial is the conjectural MQ-L, a huge drone that could fill in for today’s tankers and transports.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 17 July 2009
  • Forecasts about the path to normality and its timing are almost entirely conjectural.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The dross is the part where Jesus turns to address the poor man directly, like a real person instead of a prop for conjectural argument, and heals his hand.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The point of the black hole discussion is to get to the idea of a singularity, a conjectural point of infinite curvature and density.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2011
  • Kennedy, meanwhile, occupies a largely conjectural space in history.
    — Benjamin Hedin, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • From here on out the argument gets extremely conjectural, though lots of the material is fascinating either way.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • In the nineteenth century, greater empirical rigor was brought to the conjectural history that Rousseau had unfolded.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Failure to prosecute leaders because of the conjectural risk to the system would create two systems of justice, with those in power never being held to the same standard as other wrongdoers.
    — Andrew Weissmann, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Royster’s writing is sometimes conjectural, other times pedantic, but in many passages her prose soars, particularly in her chapter on Valerie June.
    — Santi Elijah Holley, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Well into the 2010s, technological carbon removal seemed completely conjectural, a nice-to-have but still very notional idea.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The latter is actually somewhat conjectural in regards to archaeology.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2012
  • Both estimates were based on a conjectural valuation of FTX at the time of a $420-million venture investing round in January.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • For example, the notion that Manson was a law enforcement or intelligence collaborator beggars belief and remains entirely conjectural.
    — Stephen Phillips, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Physicists are also excited about a highly conjectural connection between moonshine and quantum gravity, the as-yet-undiscovered theory that will unite general relativity and quantum mechanics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2015

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