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It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

For those of us who haven’t thought about math since high school, the recent events have taught us about Erdős problems, the Jacobian conjecture and a phenomenon known as “finite-time blowup.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

In 2010, a reclusive Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman was honored for proving the Poincaré conjecture, the first Millennium Prize Problem to be solved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Schnoebelen said that while the speculating on the origins of the statue is all conjecture at this point, she does enjoy the attention the statue has brought to this particular period of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

But we have reached the point where famous math conjectures that stood for decades seem to be falling every day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

“It could be worth several bags of groceries a month, or a tank of gas,” Rust conjectures — “significant savings for millions of people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

"This unprecedentedly clear signal of the black hole merger known as GW250114 puts to the test some of our most important conjectures about black holes and gravitational waves," Isi said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

Not only did that survey find no job losses, but it also debunked claims or conjectures from minimum-wage critics that the increase would show up as reductions in hours or fringe benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

There is an idea—strange, haunting, evocative—one of the most exquisite conjectures in science or religion.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Erdős conjectured that the maximum number of pairs, suggested by a gridlike system, could increase only slightly faster than the number of dots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Some Amazon-watchers have conjectured that the glitch may be connected to mass layoffs the company implemented in the summer in its cloud computing unit, with the jobs purportedly replaced by artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

But, for an elusive conjectured class of materials, physicists have now shown that the surface previously thought to be "featureless" holds an unmistakable signature that could lead to the first definitive observation.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2024

“Is there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence—a formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,” they ask of the world’s disparate phenomena.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023

“Maybe it belongs to my father,” Dunbar conjectured.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The outlay had some crypto followers conjecturing that he meant to consolidate the industry in his own hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

"Rather than conjecturing whether Xi would restrain actions before the party congress, it is more realistic to analyse its daily military activities and make preparations accordingly," the official added.

From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2022

Seattle needs leadership that will solve Seattle’s problems, not shameless conjecturing to tilt the playing field.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Even the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, talked about "insurgent math," conjecturing that for every innocent person killed, the U.S. created 10 new enemies.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2021

“Your observation skills are admirable, Duane the polar bear, but your conjecturing needs work. It’s not melting; it’s tocking.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el