conjecture

Whether that has had the projected effect is uncertain; reams of law-review pages and financial analyses have been filled with conjecture, but it’s hard to nail down the effect.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the guarantee of abortion rights, the conservative legal scholar Ilya Somin of George Mason University conjectured that any brain drain would be “relatively small.”

Nippon said the committee's concerns were “littered with factual inaccuracies and omissions, misleading and incomplete statements, conjecture and hypotheticals that have no basis in fact and are plainly illogical.”

Some people conjecture that the drone hysteria is the product of the public’s mistrust of government.

Wildlife officials believe the lion instead probably ventured out and was killed by a car over the summer — another grim conjecture big cat fans feared would come to pass.