Sentence examples for merely conjecture from inspiring English sources

It is merely conjecture but perhaps he was also mindful of the fact that this was a decision on which the match and possibly the series depended.

The great flaw in baby-care books is that whatever the format, they present as fact what is often merely conjecture.

That notion is merely conjecture so far, Mr. Gates acknowledged, but it was one of the successful selling points for the project.

It is possible that the taloned hind limbs were used to dispatch large prey as well, but all of this is merely conjecture.

I reported on the pressure Netflix was under to do this last year, but at that point it was merely conjecture, now it has been officially included in the conditions of service which was pointed out by Reddit user CrypticCraig.

That a pluripotent cell, such as a cancer stem cell, should be viewed as an independent cognitive entity capable of its own specialized niche construction is not merely conjecture.

Beccles free school, Suffolk, on the other hand, merely conjectured that every child within a 25-minute drive would want to attend, and was accepted.

"Pre-emptive" military strikes must meet a high standard of justification: the attack being pre-empted must be imminent, not merely conjectured or probable in the long run.

Euler proved some of Fermat's unproven claims and discovered many new and surprising facts; Lagrange not only supplied proofs of many remarks that Euler had merely conjectured but also worked them into something like a coherent theory.

Miller did not draw any firm conclusions from this, however, and contented himself by merely conjecturing that "the recurring sevens might represent something deep and profound or be just coincidence".

In his famous essay on this topic, which is reprinted with commentaries in my book, Parsing the Turing Test: Methodological and Philosophical Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer, Turing merely conjectured that by 2000 a computer program would be able to fool an "average interrogator" into thinking it was a person 30% of the time in a five-minute conversation.