conjectural
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Projections of economic gains from major sporting events are typically optimistic, euphoric, chimerical or conjectural.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
"It's a conjectural but plausible evolutionary theory - one that can't be proven, but makes sense," says Anoop Misra, who heads Delhi's Fortis-C-DOC Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
The court sided with the officers, saying that the township failed to demonstrate “real, not conjectural, harm” by using the flag and that the ban “addresses that harm in a direct and material way.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023
Although these hazards are so far entirely conjectural, they are undoubtedly driving a growing community of researchers to study various harm-reduction tactics.
From Scientific American • Apr. 4, 2023
All relied on the weight disparity between isotopes 235 and 238, but all were experimental, and their potential for industrial-scale production conjectural.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing conjectural
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