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The events in the Rex Rooms, controversy and fallout, culminating with Stokes' sudden retirement, announced in the middle of a bowling spell, have led to claims, conspiracies and conjecture.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Our research supports this conjecture, as we found that companies with more cheap stock experienced lower stock returns over longer horizons after going public.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Most people who tackled this problem tried to prove Erdős’s conjecture, rather than disprove it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Additionally, multiple commentators conjecture that his hostility to wind originated in 2011, when he groused that an offshore wind farm would be visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

A few ordered a tree set aside for the day; others stopped to price, inspect and conjecture.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“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

A lawyer for the New Jersey senator said the justice department claims were "baseless" and "bizarre conjectures".

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

So to conclude: conjectures about advanced or intelligent life are on a far shakier ground than those about simple life.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2023

At present our answers to these questions are for the most part only conjectures, but there is growing concern about the role of pesticide pollution in estuaries, salt marshes, bays, and other coastal waters.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

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

Greene conjectured that the fires were caused by “lasers or blue beams of light...coming down to Earth I guess.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

Continuing in this vein, Neylan conjectured, “Ernest’s very modesty angered him ... I think he hated Ernest because Ernest was so kind to him.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

We tune in for the fighting, assigning meaning to each expression, conjecturing about what happens when the cameras are off.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2021

In a series of lively chapters, Burlingame seeks to discredit the idea that the Lincolns’ marriage was happy, functional or loving, conjecturing that Abraham deeply regretted having wed Mary.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 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