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Shoehorning these random digressions into the film without any additional context to surmise their meaning just feels like Perkins is doing weird for weirdness’ sake.

“And in addition to the wind roaring, there were very loud reports we could hear in the background, which we surmised to be exploding canisters of fuel for barbecues and outdoor space heater,” he added.

And some were now surmising that we had engineered a vote that would promote women and diminish men, in the process making some kind of statement, though they weren’t clear on exactly what that was.

Researchers surmised that they avoid overlapping with male lions who will kill kittens in tow — and sometimes even the females themselves.

The team surmised that vortices are the key to mobula rays' filter-feeding ability.