conjecturing

verb

present participle of conjecture
1
as in estimating
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less

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2
as in guessing
to form an opinion from little or no evidence you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit

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Recent Examples of conjecturing The moment prompted extensive online speculation, with some social media users and commentators conjecturing that his words may have been critical or disrespectful. — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjecturing
  1. estimating
  2. guessing
  3. calculating
  4. assuming
  5. figuring
  6. supposing
  7. making
  8. speculating
Verb
  • Other Grail investigators modeled the likely impact of their multicancer test, estimating a 25% reduction in the death rate for all cancers combined.
    — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The Forest Service also has a substantial backlog of deferred road maintenance, with the agency estimating that cost at more than $9 billion.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of estimating
Verb
  • Then, just to keep us guessing, Pugh attended a press event at New York’s Paley Center in an ethereal all-white Erdem gown, a personification of symbolic innocence.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Booking Holdings’ chief financial officer thinks the companies spending the most on artificial intelligence are guessing.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of guessing
Verb
  • Payment history is the largest factor in calculating a FICO® Score, accounting for 35% of the score.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
  • People with eating disorders may exhibit compulsive behaviors around both exercise and eating, including working out for multiple hours every day and carefully calculating every aspect of their diet.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of calculating
Verb
  • Skydance will have a mountain of debt, projected to be north of $80 billion, after assuming the debt burdens of previous M&A incurred by Paramount and WBD and raising new debt financing.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In my hypothetical example, his 2026 fortune falls from $908 billion reported by Forbes to about $317 billion in my counterfactual 10 percent wealth tax example (again, assuming his wealth over the past 10 years grew smoothly).
    — Jeff Hoopes, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of assuming
Verb
  • This is also figuring that Warners unleashes Digger on Premium VOD soon and does a decent number relative to the box office because people are curious.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
  • UConn has been figuring it out with 87 new players, many of whom hadn’t seen regular game reps at their prior stop.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of figuring
Verb
  • More recently, other experts have advised American farmers to go all out growing soybeans, supposing they will be needed by the Chinese or somebody.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Even supposing the pledges in the 1990s documents amounted to a crime, the legal deadline for bringing mortgage fraud charges has expired.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
Definition of supposing
Verb
  • Crafting the ‘nudge’ As an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, Carleton spent two summers working in a Johns Hopkins prostate cancer lab and was surprised to see surgeons making a point to attend the department’s journal club.
    — Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • If the waiver is granted, callers would still be limited by certain conditions, including allowing consumers to opt out and making no more than three calls within 30 days to each individual recipient.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of making
Verb
  • The industry is obsessively speculating on who survives the merger to be named to David Ellison‘s executive leadership team come Monday.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
  • And like Farrar’s Twitter character, dangling on that final, hopeful comma, the president’s critics still return to speculating that this next scandal might just be the one that delivers comeuppance.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of speculating

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“Conjecturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjecturing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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