conjecture

The award for Tsimerman recognized his work, among other achievements, in helping to prove the André-Oort conjecture, a longstanding problem in geometry, the University of Toronto said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

There has been conjecture over who will play in the central attacking berth for England after the emergence of Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers as a viable option in the position.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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

Finally, in 1973, David Robinson at Kings College, London, used Carter’s and my results to show that the conjecture had been correct: such a black hole had indeed to be the Kerr solution.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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

Despite all that, conjectures by laypersons that the illness or death of acquaintances can be traced to the vaccines are legion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

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

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

Finally out of Nanny’s talk and her own conjectures she made a sort of comfort for herself.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

The researchers conjectured that because washers and dryers are typically sold as pairs, retailers may have simply spread the washing machine cost increase between the two products to keep their prices similar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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

Maybe I’m worried, Rick Deckard conjectured, that what happened to Dave will happen to me.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Mostly they were focused on me, whispering, nodding, conjecturing on who I was.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee