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How to use conjecture in a sentence

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Conjecture means a statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess. Example: “I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.”

Examples of conjecture by meaning

nounA statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

  • I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.

nounA supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.

  • The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.

verbTo guess; to venture an unproven idea.

  • I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
  • What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h.1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 804

More sentences with conjecture

  • For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.From the entry see
  • Wall-Sun-Sun primes are conjectured to exist, but no example has yet been found.From the entry Wall-Sun-Sun prime
  • Tutte conjectured that all snarks have the Petersen graph as a graph minor.From the entry graph minor
  • Nevertheless, in a postscript, Conway wrote that the Collatz conjecture is very likely unsettleable.2023, Peter Lynch, “Amusical Permutations and Unsettleable Problems”, in ThatsMaths. From the entry probvious
  • “Goldbach’s conjecture, I finally remember it,” he says, as I’m standing to go.2022, Iain Reid, We Spread, Scribner, pages 255-256. From the entry Goldbach's conjecture
  • Where Foden eventually ends up on that sliding scale is a game of pointless conjecture.2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian. From the entry sliding scale
  • Finally, we study arc-decompositions of antistrong digraphs and pose several problems and conjectures.2016, Jorgen Bang-Jensen, Stephane Bessy, Bill Jackson, Matthias Kriesell, “Antistrong digraphs”, in arXiv. From the entry antistrong
  • In addition, a conjecture on negabent monomials whose exponents are of Niho type is given..2016, Gaofei Wu, Nian Li, Yuqing Zhang, Xuefeng Liu, “Several Classes of Negabent Functions over Finite Fields”, in arXiv. From the entry negabent
  • Thus we negatively answer Morrey's conjecture in the subclass of isochoric nonlinear energies, since polyconvexity implies quasiconvexity.2015, Robert J. Martin, Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba, Patrizio Neff, “Rank-one convexity implies polyconvexity for isotropic, objective and…. From the entry polyconvexity
  • The investigation of low-regularity inextendibility criteria is motivated by the strong cosmic censorship conjecture.2015, Jan Sbierski, “The $C^0$-inextendibility of the Schwarzschild spacetime and the spacelike diameter in Lorentzian Geometry”, in…. From the entry inextendibility
  • We prove Calegari's conjecture that every quasigeodesic flow on a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has closed orbits..2015, Steven Frankel, “Coarse hyperbolicity and closed orbits for quasigeodesic flows”, in arXiv. From the entry quasigeodesic
  • We disprove a conjecture in Density Functional Theory, relative to multimarginal optimal transport maps with Coulomb cost.2015, Maria Colombo, Federico Stra, “Counterexamples in multimarginal optimal transport with Coulomb cost and spherically symmetric data”…. From the entry multimarginal
  • We enunciate a conjecture about the (enhanced) Langlands parameters of supercuspidal representation of split reductives p-adics groups.2015, Ahmed Moussaoui, “Centre de Bernstein enrichi pour les groupes classiques”, in arXiv. From the entry reductives
  • This space within the Trinity corresponds to another space—the Third Space conjectured by postcolonial theory.2014, Sarah Travis, Decolonizing Preaching, →ISBN. From the entry third space
  • These conjectures appeared because they searched among the current existing mitochondrial DNA for common sequencies.2013, Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira, Dietrich Stauffer, Evolution, Money, War, and Computers, →ISBN. From the entry sequency
  • This disproved Euler's conjecture, as 22 is an even number not divisible by four.2013, Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno, Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation, page 381. From the entry Greco-Latin square
  • Some spellmistress as wants babbies of a Bear, is the conjecture.2008, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, London: Jonathan Cape, published 2009, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry spellmistress
  • The abc conjecture may well replace the Fermat theorem for the future generation of mathematicians.2004, Sergei K. Lando, R.V. Gamkrelidze, V.A. Vassiliev, Graphs on Surfaces and Their Applications, Springer, page 137. From the entry abc conjecture
  • Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.1999, Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint. From the entry conflate
  • A government caterpillar is chrysalising: what kind of butterfly flies away remains a matter for conjecture.1965, British Communications and Electronics, page 247. From the entry chrysalis
  • “The homeopape conjectures were correct,” Felix Blau, boss of the police agency, was saying on the vidscreen.1965, Philip K. Dick, “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 246. From the entry vidscreen
  • It was conjectured that the likeliest candidate was the superferocious General Bradley.1950, New Times, Newspaper "Trud", page 17. From the entry superferocious
  • Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery.1937 September 27, “Fiction: Recent Books”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2012. From the entry who's who
  • Some have conjectured hastily that all Southerners in town hie themselves to cafés at nightfall.1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café. From the entry hie
  • It is even possible that this bacchantic motif entered Ovid's tale via Sophocles' lost Tereus, though this is only conjecture.2018, J.P. Sullivan, Irene J.F. de Jong, Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature, page 274. From the entry bacchantic
  • We prove a relaxed version of this conjecture: every planar digraph of digirth at least four is 2-colourable..2016, Zhentao Li, Bojan Mohar, “Planar digraphs of digirth four are 2-colourable”, in arXiv. From the entry digirth
  • This conjecture was verified for stars, some bistars, paths of length 3, 5, and 2ʳ for every positive integer r.2015, Fabio Botler, Guilherme O. Mota, Marcio T. I. Oshiro, Yoshiko Wakabayashi, “Decomposing highly edge-connected graphs into paths of…. From the entry bistars
  • Now the ideas of Aharonov and Shimoney inspire a conjecture: quantum correlations obey relativistic causality, while superquantum correlations do not.2013, Daniele C. Struppa, Jeffrey M. Tollaksen, Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story, page 207. From the entry superquantum
  • Much conjecture has arisen about the reasons for the misdrop.2008, Stephen E. Wright, The Last Drop: Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry misdrop
  • Or is that also conjecture or gospel?2000, Wally Phillips, “Foreword”, in Vicki Quade, I Remember Bob Collins, Champaign, Ill.: Bannon Multimedia Group, →ISBN, page vi. From the entry inexplicable
  • That Jesus was straightforward and that Paul and Jesus were both high on tendermindedness are conjectures on which few would disagree.1999, James R. Beck, Jesus & Personality Theory: Exploring the Five-Factor Model, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry tendermindedness
  • Division of labor becomes outdated in this conjecture: everyone is a generalist and specialist simultaneously due to the explosion of knowledge.1979, Yearn H[ong] Choi, Introduction to Public Administration: Essays and Research Notes, Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company…. From the entry adhocrat
  • Origin of the diastolic murmur is open to conjecture.1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital…. From the entry apex
  • As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19. From the entry nil
  • He conjectured that the eggs are extruded into this, fertilized by the male, and then taken into his mouth.1918, E. W. Gudger, “Oral Gestation in the Gaff-Topsail Catfish, Felichthys felis”, in Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the…. From the entry mouthbrooder
  • The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 413. From the entry slender

Meaning of conjecture

  1. noun A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
  2. noun A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
  3. noun A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.

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Questions about conjecture in a sentence

How do you use conjecture in a sentence?
Conjecture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.”
What is a short sentence with conjecture?
“Or is that also conjecture or gospel?”
What does conjecture mean?
Conjecture means a statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.

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