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conjectures 1 of 2

noun

plural of conjecture

as in guesses

an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence the many conjectures about the true identity of Jack the Ripper

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verb

present tense third-person singular of conjecture

as in estimates

to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less

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as in assumes

to form an opinion from little or no evidence you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit

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Many mathematicians have stopped posting open conjectures and potential ideas at the end of their papers, for fear that they’ll be scraped by bots and fed into AI models. — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026 There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026 Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026 The project grew out of group head Ido Kaminer’s 2019 Ramanujan Machine, an AI bot that seeks out new conjectures for calculating mathematical constants. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026 With few clear signals about who has influence and how decisions are made, the halls of power in Beijing are fertile ground for political conjectures. — Deng Yuwen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2025 This is an intense ongoing study and there are many conjectures. — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025 Amenabar seems to root his screenplay on conjectures about the writer’s sexuality, which many scholars consider latterday projection. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025

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This kind of attempt to observe without tackling with hypotheses and conjectures and theories, right? — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, conjectures about the impact of a deal or non-deal have proliferated. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026 In two preprints, the pair proved function field versions of both conjectures. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026 Humans propose conjectures, guided by intuition. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 Suspicion fell on Shiite families, though many dismissed these conjectures; in Ain el-Mreisseh, people know their neighbors. — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026 There’s no end to conjectures about William Shakespeare’s life because there isn’t all that much definitive Shakespeareana to rake over. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Today’s puzzle took our testers an average of 5 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging.

— New York Times Games, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Getting a word with a small number of guesses is a source of pride for players.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of guesses

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At full capacity, the company estimates that the new facility could feature approximately 600 employees.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
One recent analysis estimates that the Big Three took between 10 and 15 years to catch up with Japanese advances in production efficiency.

— Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of estimates

Verb

In our example of the pond, simply comparing the number of possibilities assumes that each stone emits a wave independently.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
For any executive whose roadmap assumes compute capacity coming online on schedule, that is now a line item.

— Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumes

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Votes are tallied quickly because each ballot box calculates results locally and prints a paper summary.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
The company calculates that this shift has resulted in a 20,790 ton reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, compared to using virgin materials.

— Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026

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