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A conclusion based on incomplete evidence.

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conjecture

Without the missing ledger, the explanation remained conjecture.
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Students also supplied anecdotal accounts of inconvenient journeys. Those individual stories raised useful questions, but a claim that nearly everyone preferred the proposed route remained conjecture until the group gathered broader feedback.
From From Impressions to Evidence.
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