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Kloza expects gasoline prices to see a seasonal decline, which may “spark all sorts of conjecture about refiners making too much gasoline when there isn’t demand for it.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s not unusual, of course, for IPO prospectuses to carry a fair helping of conjecture and aspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Former NFL offensive lineman John Urschel published a paper proving a decades-old mathematical conjecture regarding Gaussian elimination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

Now this conjecture is known to be wrong.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

AI can already write code and rewrite emails and summarize meetings and prove abstract math conjectures and figure out why your washing machine keeps making that strange beeping noise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

"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

G. W., by contrast, is happy to entrust himself to ‘strong, and shrewd conjectures’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Frost conjectured that, given the poor showing of similar proposals in the recent past, the SEC probably would have allowed the company to exclude the latest proposal from the annual meeting proxy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

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

The problem was that although its existence had been conjectured for years, no one had found it.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Simpson homicide trial in 1994, Wecht was a frequent talk show guest, conjecturing on the “Today” show and “Good Morning America” about the significance of blood samples and other evidence.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

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

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

The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet’s visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen