surmise
IPA: sɝmˈaɪz
noun
- Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
- Reflection; thought; posit.
verb
- To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
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Examples of "surmise" in Sentences
- The connection is a reasonable surmise.
- We panted with curiosity and wild surmise.
- Is anyone keen to surmise the salient points
- For the moment, I'm going with the second surmise.
- The lead surmises the rest of the article efficiently.
- Second, as I'm sure you may surmise, is the word "author."
- All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
- This is consistent with what we surmise of the evolution of man.
- He surmises he was unconsciously inspired by it to invent the signal.
- I can reasonably surmise that it is meant to provoke and not conciliate.
- He surmises it that he was unconsciously inspired by it to invent the sigil.
- What really happened we do not know, but the agreed surmise is that it was some stroke of the heart.
- Also as you may surmise from the title, Nine pushes the consent issue a little before he gets an actual yes from Rose.
- But all I can surmise is that compared to those mushy frozen vegetables that I mentioned in gross foods, these were heaven.
- As you can surmise from the whole movie situation, the Colombian bus system seems to be run by evangelicals and lewd fellows of the baser sort.
- We can surmise from the inventory too that Salas was probably a literate man as his goods included four books on surgery, a book of stories, and two hand-painted writing desks.
- But my surmise is that Ms. Woodling has been salting away a cadre of such people in the DOJ (and that at least some of this cadre have been hired over the conventionally-credentialed people listed by Bart, which in itself is scarcely cause for concern, depending on the numbers).
- When pump number six breaks down, threatening the precious drinking water and breathable air with its released chemicals - which we can surmise is the cause of mankind's slow descent from brainy to brainless - Alvin lacks the means to fix it and so embarks on a short quest to the local college Engineering department and library.
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