I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a matter for speculation/conjecture (= something people discuss and wonder about )
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His future had become a matter for speculation.
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■ ADJECTIVE
pure
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It is pure conjecture on their part.
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It's a matter for conjecture who wrote the original text in the fifteenth century.
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Jackson's political plans have been the subject of conjecture since he moved to Washington.
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The judge dismissed the evidence as pure conjecture .
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Any prediction about the bond markets, of course, is part conjecture .
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If Cantor decided to wear it, his tumorigenesis theory would become just another discarded conjecture in the cancer field.
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In the author's view the Lucas supply function comprises an arbitrarily concocted mishmash of conjectures and suppositions.
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Initially this was scoffed at as farfetched conjecture , but gradually it has received grudging respect and empirical support.
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It is a mistake to regard the falsification of bold, highly falsifiable conjectures as the occasions of significant advance in science.
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Significant advances will be marked by the confirmation of bold conjectures or the falsification of cautious conjectures.
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The unknown is always the most fearsome, opening out into wide areas of conjecture .
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You get the sense that, no matter what the outcome, everyone suffers from this kind of racial conjecture .
II. verb
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"Maybe Burt is jealous," Isabelle conjectured.
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Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
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But Rennenkampf did not move and one can only conjecture why.
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He conjectured that light itself might consist of such waves.
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It is widely conjectured that Stalin himself planned the murder of Kirov.
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The impact of this episode upon the efforts to change the style of services for mentally ill patients is hard to conjecture .
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They conjecture that literacy plays a central part in this process.
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Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail.