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It is the present participle form of the verb 'conjecture', which means to form an opinion or belief without sufficient evidence or proof. Example: The team of scientists spent weeks conjecturing about the cause of the mysterious phenomenon before finally conducting experiments to find the truth.
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conjecturing
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Present participle of conjecture
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Entertainment Weekly has a different theory, conjecturing that the networks are wary of their midseason replacements and fear they could do worse than the current crop.
Some researchers even blame war for the first spread of the AIDS pandemic, conjecturing that a small localised infection was carried far and wide through mass rape during the Ugandan civil war of the 1970s.Besides scattering refugees and spreading disease, civil wars often disrupt trade across whole regions.
At one end of the series would be guessing and conjecturing, for example, which possess the least amount of certitude; in the middle would be thinking, believing, and feeling sure; and at the end would be knowing, the most certain of all these states.
The Defeat, also featuring Rapatio, followed a year later, and in 1775 Warren published The Group, a satire conjecturing what would happen if the British king abrogated the Massachusetts charter of rights.
And Arthur Kock, of the New York Times — he was such a big wheel then — was conjecturing that even though the prospect of Adlai Stevenson's defeating the President was not that likely, Herbert Brownell, smart politician that he was, was not going to take any chances, and wanted to fend off Stevenson by putting a Northeast Irishman on the Court.
Clinton said he wished that Bush hadn't been so "gushy" about Putin in the beginning, conjecturing about the goodness of the Russian President's soul, but the Administration is making a mistake now, he said, by criticizing him so often.
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Huxley conjectured that we would be destroyed by the things that delight us.
Political journalists, I conjecture, generally have no parallel familiarity with academic political science, and I'm not sure they care.
They conjecture that the life-cycle portfolio behaviour – which suggests that agents should borrow when young, invest for retirement when middle-aged, and live off their investment once they are retired – plays an important role in determining equilibrium asset prices.
It was posed by Johannes Kepler, who conjectured in 1611 that the densest way to pack spheres in three-dimensional space is the "face-centred cubic" or pyramid pattern, familiar from oranges on fruit stalls.
Because memory takes time to form, he conjectured that drugs which block the action of these hormones soon after the trauma might decrease the intensity of the memory.
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