conjecture
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The Kiel researchers conjectured that exporters didn’t absorb the tariff costs for three main reasons.
From Los Angeles Times
“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
A robot that seems “as intelligent, as attentive, and as faithful, as a dog” — no earlier than 2048, he conjectured in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times
One might as well conjecture that 1939’s “The Women” was a metaphor for the Nazi invasion of Poland.
In a paper in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, the writers conjecture that sites such as this may lie at the origin of local Breton legends of sunken cities.
From BBC
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