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The phrase "personal conjecture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing an individual's opinion or hypothesis that is not based on concrete evidence. Example: "In my personal conjecture, the project will succeed if we implement the new strategies effectively."
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Whether you believe he would even have made it this far without cancellations is a matter for personal conjecture.
And you introduce overly personal conjecture if you begin, "Because my useless boyfriend has commitment issues, thanks to his horrible mother, who..."...
In the absence of empirical evidence, economic modelers often rely on their personal conjecture and assign subjective values to the extensive margins in their analyses.
Last week I wrote about how the Israel-Iran conspiracy theory around the Stuxnet worm was built entirely on one security engineer's personal conjecture (Ralph Langner) with absolutely no weighing of alternative possibilities for attribution, nor any objective assessment of the evidence.
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Without reviewing the facts of the case in detail, it is noteworthy that the Court indicated that a plaintiff must provide more detailed evidence than "personal beliefs, conjecture and speculation".
It is difficult to talk about pornography without infusing the conversation with personal opinion and conjecture.
In an influential book published in 1991, the University of San Diego's Joseph Rost pointed out that writers had defined leadership in more than 200 ways since 1900, often with nothing but conjecture or personal experience to back up their claims.
It's been nearly two weeks since Google Instant launched, and aside from conjecture and personal opinions about the new UX (everyone seems to either hate it or love it), we're finally starting to see some real data about how the new Google search experience is affecting organic traffic levels and other facets of SEO.
The post is part-personal experience, part-conjecture.
And ultimately the photograph itself is born of conjecture, laced with personal worldviews.
Based only on "improper assumptions," "conjecture," or "her personal views," the appeals court said, the judge rejected this account as implausible.
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