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Climate change was not on the discussion list here, as you might surmise.

From Salon

His solution, we surmise, was not to take a principled stand of dissent when the far-right bloc went too far, too fast, but to join them and lead them to new heights of extremism.

From Slate

"I would speculate, but you can see some of the fashion prints were coloured in a fairly rough hand and it wouldn't be a huge leap to surmise these prints could have been a means of instructing Mary on drawing and on fashion," she said.

From BBC

In this eerie, rather primitive context, its easy to surmise that the murderess is a witch.

Because the waves of bulging blood vessels move in a variety of directions, the authors surmise that the pulses of dilation and contraction of the blood vessels are more likely to be involved in mixing the fluid around them rather than actively moving it in a given direction.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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