verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches.
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I could only surmise that she and Lila had met before.
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We could only surmise that alternative passages must have been worse.
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At this point, Blue can only surmise what the case is not.
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So one can only surmise that this rather authoritarian sign is aimed at people whose knuckles scrape the tarmac.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the first victims were not black, as you might surmise , but white men.
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I could only surmise that she and Lila had met before.
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Maurice surmised it was from his aunt.
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Not more than a week old, Father Poole surmised.
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One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches.
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Probably helping some official move, he surmised as he became absorbed in the activity.
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They are one and all friendly, kind and tolerant - largely I surmise by virtue of my wife and her approachability.
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We sat still in the desolate space for several hours before we surmised that evidently we were free to go.