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Recent Examples of conjectural Both of these Elizabeths are conjectural. Vulture, 8 Sep. 2022 That's still highly conjectural. Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2020 Failure to prosecute leaders because of the conjectural risk to the system would create two systems of justice, with those in power never being held to the same standard as other wrongdoers. Andrew Weissmann, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023 The point of the black hole discussion is to get to the idea of a singularity, a conjectural point of infinite curvature and density. Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2011 See all Example Sentences for conjectural 
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Adjective
  • The two sides will stop fighting for 42 days, with the aim (again, speculative) of making that cease-fire permanent and ending the war.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, but: Those plans are dependent on Cleveland-Cliffs acquisition of U.S. Steel and are still only speculative.
    Sam Allard, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Kuzma was posed that hypothetical Sunday night, after the loss to the Kings.
    Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is massive, electrically neutral and hardly, if ever, interacts with normal matter.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The newspaper was referring to Planet Nine, a theoretical planet at the edge of the solar system.
    Ailsa Harvey, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical chemist who used computers to model how complex systems change during chemical reactions, died last month at 94.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Conjectural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjectural. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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