conjectural - use in sentences

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  • largely: On the one hand the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture gives an abstract and still largely conjectural approach which applies in very general situations.
  • highly: A future of controlled fertility and rapidly changing roles of women make projections of sex ratios highly conjectural.
  • purely: Nevertheless, it is still assumed to occur, and its purely conjectural magnitude determines what we call the ' velocity of light ' .
  • somewhat: Its exact locality, tho somewhat conjectural, was somewhere at the mouth of the river.
  • still: Weaknesses Substantial stretches of the road system are still conjectural.
  • not: The objection gathers strength when one notices that Popper's proposition is itself not conjectural.

Modifies a noun

  • emendation: Wherever the grammar of a sentence was destroyed by the omission, some conjectural emendation of the injured text was made to restore sense.
  • knowledge: But how factual are items of yet-to-be falsified, ` conjectural knowledge ' ?
  • reconstruction: This is not to be confused with either recreation or conjectural reconstruction, which are outside the scope of this Charter.
  • reasoning: This problem of ` conjectural reasoning ' forms the subject of my thesis.
  • nature: This, and the conjectural nature of all such tests, is often overlooked by critics of falsificationism.
  • paradigm: The new romantic, on the other hand, would appreciate the active learning and student autonomy implicit in the conjectural paradigm.

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: Long distance supply pathways originating in Sandown and Hayling Bays remain conjectural.

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