How To Use Surmise In A Sentence
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As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
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With no news from the explorers we can only surmise their present position / where they are.
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The article is pure surmise and innuendo.
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Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.
Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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With a wild surmise, 1 began to breed, generation after generation, from whichever child looked most like an insect.
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I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind; and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefeeling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled.
Eothen
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I surmised that the butler did it
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And they correctly surmise that a President with other spending priorities seeks to take it away.
Times, Sunday Times
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My surmise turned out to be right.
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It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.
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Some of this was predicted, but you could never see through the haze, it was all surmise.
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The race taught me a lot about myself and how I can push myself to actually outkick people," surmises Beach.
Runner\'s World Racing News
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I surmise that there is some concern at high levels of business and government upon the disconformity between our collective bargaining laws and the laws of comparable nations whose bargaining laws adhere to widely accepted standards of international labour law.
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As he pulled the material away he could see his surmise was correct.
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We even relocate daybreak and sunset, which, one might surmise, are logical ways to determine the beginning and end of a given day, within the compass of clock-time.
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A river mage is called upon to investigate the water ghosts seen in London and surmises that the Queen's rival, the fairy of the under-hill, is mounting an attack.
REVIEW: Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake
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Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
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Her book is rich in intelligent surmise but thin on supporting evidence.
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We are just looking ahead, and trying to make an intelligent surmise about who will be the next leader of the country.
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And it is fair to surmise that underlying each of these assaults are some very backward-looking and misogynistic beliefs.
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I hope you have not made any hasty arrangements with him for certainly you can surmise, his only intentions will be to ill use her and then cast her aside in poverty and disgrace.
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He said he supposed the proconsul was the friend of Caligula, who often visited Agrippa; and expressed a surmise that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat would be cut.
Herodias
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The government "encouraged the jury to engage in rank speculation and surmise about the substance of unrecorded conversations concerning which it offered no testimony at all, and to engage in even ranker speculation about what Mr. Rajaratnam knew and did not know about Roomy Khan and her alleged sources," Mr. Dowd said.
Galleon Founder Asks Judge to Dismiss Conviction
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In fact, the cabbalistic and/or hermetic connections made between the tarot and its sources were little more than a series of free associations, usually based on personal surmise.
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Given that conclusion, you can certainly surmise that early voters are less persuadable than Election Day voters.
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It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.
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It's not that his surmises are automatically wrong (they're backed up by art-historical knowledge and personal empathy), but that they sound affected and impossibly privileged.
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One can only surmise that it is something wayward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of Johnny's friends saw in this promptitude a high mark of respect and affection; others felt a haste, almost undue, to turn the new erection into a bulletin of "actualities"; and a few surmised that had the work not been done with promptitude it might have come to be done in a leisurely fashion that spelled neglect: if it were to be done, 't were well it were done quickly -- a formal token of regard checked off and disposed of.
On the Stairs
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He was glad to have his surmise confirmed.
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And as he had surmised, twenty more soldiers soon followed in their wake.
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As we view the use of ‘sheepskin aprons’ in the Initiated Orders of Masonry, we can surmise that the use of this element would be seen as an affront to more ‘precise’ sects contained within the vast network of Mystery Schools.
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With a wild surmise, 1 began to breed, generation after generation, from whichever child looked most like an insect.
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Simple it was, so he said, to laughableness; yet, if their surmise was correct, it would serve as an effectual preventive if not cure, and would at least give them time to turn round.
Bob, Son of Battle
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We can surmise that one of his commanders must have stumbled upon our plan.
Man of Honour
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And one can easily surmise, the half thats being bribed, is not in the bottom half of the Average income scale.
Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex
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People surged along the sidewalk, crowding, questioning, filling the air with rumours and inconsequent surmises. Mrs.
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The point, I surmise, is that states of being such as love and holiness have an intrinsic exigence for expression.
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‘The poeticule surmises, the sun sets and rises, within his world navel asshole.’
McClellan’s Book Bubble Bursts on the Blogs - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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The detective is completely correct in his surmises.
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It is unjust to start bombing on the basis of those surmises.
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If, as we are led to believe, there is some benefit to be obtained by continuing to allow night flights, ought we to surmise from this that the offending aircraft are simply carrying freight?
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One can only surmise at the extent of their co-operation from the odd anecdote, and from influences scholars have detected in the texts themselves.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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One can surmise their calculations.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The term is obviously derived from Twinkie, but the association with a sugary snack is not obvious -- I surmise that the usage may come from gay slang, in which a "twinkie" is a cute young man with an older lover.
Boing Boing: November 16, 2003 - November 22, 2003 Archives
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It was surmised that it was all due to the limited demand that time for coupes and also due to the high price of both models - the coupe and the convertible.
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A juryman surmised that the deceased slipped as he was watching the waves, pointing out that his hat was found on the stones.
Archive 2010-05-01
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Franke surmised that a clevis bolt in the control system broke, rendering the elevator useless.
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As to the personality back of the pseudonym "Avellaneda" many surmises have been made Lope de Vega has been suggested, so have Tirso de Molina and Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, but all proposed identifications have to be rejected.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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But neither the justice of Kennaston's airdrawn surmises, nor their wildness, matters; the point is that they made of him a vestryman who in appearance and speech and actions, and in essential beliefs, differed not at all from his associates in office, who had comfortably acquired their standards by hearsay.
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
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And he surmised that another term, "the Camp," used to describe the archipelago's barren expanses, is derived from the Spanish word "campo," for countryside.
NYT > Home Page
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Ronin surmised that no one had escaped the fight unscathed, and he began wondering if he should've called a retreat in the first place.
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Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Nature
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One can surmise at which audience the guide is most usefully aimed.
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I later surmised, from the Turkish-military aircraft parked in the revetments, that this taxiway was for military aircraft with a short wingspan.
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Perhaps it is the educated surmise that in large cities the rat population equals or exceeds the human.
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I could only surmise that these Makonde had taken Swahili names to ease their assimilation into coastal society, creating confusion among non-resident park officials.
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This is pure surmise.
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But, as in the sixteenth century the harp went out and the bagpipes came into fashion, it may be surmised that it was brought in, with other French novelties, on the return of Queen Mary, perhaps by the Queen herself, or, maybe, some itinerant player of the cornemuse may have accidentally been in her train, and his music set a fashion which has now become national.
Brittany & Its Byways
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Having recently met a young Englishman of preternatural charm and physique, I surmised (perhaps wrongly) that after a day in the country together, I had managed to engender his affections.
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But there was a snag - there was no natural harbour, and Carrington surmised that building one would be at considerable expense.
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They surmised that the bone formation was caused by repetitive mechanical stress to the proximal humeral epiphysis during growth.
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Breathing" gets divorced from the company of piping and panting, and gets wed to the ensuing somatics of human passion, "burning" and "parching," while the possibility of "far above" as a location in imaginative surmise subsides to a sighing recognition of high aesthetic privilege, from which mortal humanity is excluded.
The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' -
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All day he had argued with himself, surmised and made excuses, sunned himself in the cove at Rapparree, assuring himself stubbornly that everything was quite all right; and at last, dinnerless, desperate, and afraid, had started off hot foot to find her; intending to crush the resistance out of her with the outpourings of his love, and force her to risk everything for the sake of a life-long happiness.
Leonie of the Jungle
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With no news from the explorers we can only surmise their present position / where they are.
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One can only surmise it reflects a continuation of interventionist policies in foreign conflicts, where their presence will be of questionable value as guerrilla warfare becomes commonplace.
Times, Sunday Times
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He surmised that the suggestion wouldn't find favour.
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And his granddad was a Johnny, as perhaps you might surmise;
Poems of American Patriotism
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As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
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I know not what strange premonition or unformed surmise had made me put in my wallet the thin overdress of a parabolanus.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Or else they wage one poor man or other to become a bodger, and thereto get him a licence upon some forged surmise, which being done, they will feed him with money to buy for them till he hath filled their lofts, and then, if he can do any good for himself, so it is; if not, they will give him somewhat for his pains at this time, and reserve him for another year.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Or else they wage one poor man or other to become a bodger, and thereto get him a license upon some forged surmise, which being done, they will feed him with money to buy for them till he hath filled their lofts, and then, if he can do any good for himself, so it is; if not, they will give him somewhat for his pains at this time, and reserve him for another year.
Of Fairs and Markets. Chapter IV. [1577, Book II., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 18
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Brythonic rather than Goidelic; and Dr. Rhys surmises that it is really an older form of speech, neither Goidelic nor Brythonic, and probably not allied to either, although, in the form in which its fragments have come down to us, it has been deeply affected by Brythonic forms.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
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(Click on thumbnail for enlargement) The blog "My Surmise" has a scan of a flexible keyboard user's manual written in mangled English.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
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It may however be surmised that the subdivision and subinfeudation of a holding in the occupation of such a group of kinsmen would be carried out by the formation of further similar groups.
On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
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Craft lore was his phrase for the kind of knowing that's always just escaping our grammars and prosodies - partly, we surmise, because these are described knowledges.
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Scientists surmise this allows the bacteria to orient themselves relative to Earth's magnetic field to guide their movement to desirable locations.
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Vito surmised he was a plainclothesman and scoffed at the obviousness and absurdity of it.
Fear
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With no news from the explorers we can only surmise their present position / where they are.
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67 What the history of the lineage system suggests was surmised by anthropologist Marja-Liisa Swantz when she explained that "the Zaramo system was matrilineal and largely uxorilocal, but it had a clear bilineal emphasis, which made it highly adaptable.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches.
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No one surmised that Pro Bowl candidates would be moving around like so many pieces on a huge chessboard.
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From the way he kept nervously lifting a finger to touch his eye patch, she surmised also that he was not sure whether she would like it.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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However, I've always surmised that they saw something like what Jaime and I saw.
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The wind, we surmised, had opened and closed the screen door, which never worked properly.
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I had been taught that “itis” at the end of a word signified some kind of inflammation and I was exposed to the insight that “gastr” was supposed to make you think about stomachs; so I creatively surmised correctly that the word “gastritis” might well relate to inflammation of the stomach.
A Mind at a Time
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Because they had not been formally introduced, he may surmise from her knowledge of him and his presence in the area that she was only interested in attracting a rich husband.
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And it would be fair to surmise that her decision not to seek a second term betokened a certain frustration.
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6 They were by law of that proud tyranness law > command tyranness > female tyrant (Pride) 7 (Provoked with Wrath, and Envy's false surmise), surmise > accusation, accusations
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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He is, the staff quickly surmise, a pain in the neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police surmise the man was led to the area and was killed there by rivals over a business conflict or a personal vendetta.
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As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
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This ‘razor’ technique for electioneering is what the pentagon used to surmise a stolen election in the ukraine.
Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers
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He correctly surmised that the solid component of the gel was microporous, and that the pore structure collapsed due to the liquid-vapor surface tension forces of the evaporating liquid.
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He surmised that not all of these embryos could come to maturity in the same host without killing themselves and their host by overpopulating.
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Studying the debacle of the spoiled shipment, he surmised that other companies shipping perishable goods to Asia must have had similar experiences.
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In one of his conscious moments he surmised that he was in a qanat, in one of the underground rivers the wise men had said exÂisted, but he had no way of knowing whether he was being carried along by the river or simply hanging in one spot.
The Eternal Mercenary
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My surmise is that anyone who has a patent to prosecute will hold off until the European software patent decision is made.
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Given this evidence, local police surmised that perhaps Weed was drunk and accidentally fell off the balcony.
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With no news from the explorers we can only surmise their present position / where they are.
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So we might surmise that a larger wobble should have a proportionally greater effect on the Earth's shape.
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In this circumscribed area, then, it may be surmised how the great physiognomists - and collectors are the physiognomists of the world of objects - turn into interpreters of fate.
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Charles was glad to have his surmise confirmed.
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Although you have currently found an effect, the reasons for it are not defensibly to do with the relationship you surmise.
MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update
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We surmise that containment shifts development from exurban and rural areas to suburban and urban ones because of containment boundaries.
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One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches.
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I could only surmise that these Makonde had taken Swahili names to ease their assimilation into coastal society, creating confusion among non-resident park officials.
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The international coalition the White House is assembling will fracture if it is asked to act based on hunches and surmises.
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However, the actual incidents (as opposed to the preparation and debriefing) are fewer and farther between than I surmised from reading the box cover, and their second-to-last achievement was flim-flamming a bunch of idealistic college kids who had not yet learned to think critically and skeptically.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Her reticence, he surmises, was based on her conservative stance on social issues.
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This surmise is strengthened by the way his name is written out formally on the picture, including the surname.
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One can only surmise at the extent of their co-operation from the odd anecdote, and from influences scholars have detected in the texts themselves.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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That a long ship has been overturned on the moor is as much as we may surmise of a beehive cell thrown up along the Tyne.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Once Doug let go of Edith and she straightened up, Anson surmised, 'Gordette must've been the one who malfed your suit.'
Moonwar
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I haven't attended a circus since and can only surmise what sort of unspeakable terror I experienced that day, its memory locked deep within the vault of repression that sits just east of my heart.
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The detective is completely correct in his surmises.
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Without more detail about exactly how her clothing was "disarrayed," I can't surmise whether she had begun to undress when she was attacked; whether the killer rearranged, undid, cut, or ripped her clothing; whether he did so before or after her death.
Portrait of a Killer
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Workers, critics surmised, must surely feel slighted, insulted, and mocked by such acts of disdain.
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I surmise the position will be advertised when existing Chief Magistrate demits office.
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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His surmise proved correct.
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In the end, he surmised that being third in line wasn't as important as being here.
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Toward the end, as more foreign morale data began to come back-Yank pollsters with clipboards and squeaky new shoe-pacs or galoshes visiting snow-softened liberated ruins to root out the truffles of truth created, as ancients surmised, during storm, in the instant of lightning blast-a contact in American PWD was able to bootleg copies and make them available to "The White Visitation.
Gravity's Rainbow
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I also know the people of the Vale and surmised they wouldn't be giving up their local boxing club without a fight.
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I could probably hazard a few surmises but I gravitated towards this kind of journalism, talking to strong personalities about their strongly-held beliefs because it's a comfortable position for me.
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From our view of the individual on the right, we can surmise that both are probably wearing long, full pants, or a long, straight skirt, with an apron-length overskirt made from panels of fabric that hang from the waist.
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Dr. Mallon surmises that it's worried about accuracy.
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Of course, there will be skeptics who will surmise that he had been involved in illicit activities which lead to his death.
It may not be a trend, but it does happen
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And they correctly surmise that a President with other spending priorities seeks to take it away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The surmise of the researchers turned out to be correct.
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Later reflection induced me to examine this surmise in detail, and to conclude finally that the theory is true, and that the enigma of Hamlet's character can be solved through calculations of pinguitude.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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He is, the staff quickly surmise, a pain in the neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Dunia returns to her father's grave and breaks down in tears, the reader can surmise that she is ashamed and repentant.
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When, one by one, all of his women patients stopped doing the work of free association that they had at first enthusiastically taken up and began shyly and then importunely to declare their love for him, he shrewdly surmised that it was not 'the charms of my person' that were the cause of the disturbance but, rather, that the women were in a state of readiness to fall in love, and he was simply Bottom to their Titania.
The Patient Is Always Right
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Each dish had its own plate: round, square, triangular or oval, depending, as far as I could surmise, on whether it was fish, meat or fowl.
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He surmised that he could not be the sole source for the BBC's information.
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Bob knew from his research that the beehive was a key Masonic symbol for industriousness.8 He surmised that the Florence coke ovens were KGC-Masonic in origin.
Shadow of the Sentinel
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She was missed, of course, and at first the Coastguardmen surmised that she had either dragged her anchor or parted her cable some time during the night, and had been blown out to sea.
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One can only surmise that it is something wayward.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was surprised with just how accurate some of their surmises were, though.
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For the most part, the triage nurse surmised, people would be too drunk to notice they were injured, until they woke the next day doubly injured.
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They surmised that it must be a tractor with two different tires on it.
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It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.
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The detective is completely correct in his surmises.
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We surmise that protonation of titratable residues of the HA1 domain at low pH enhances the electrostatic repulsion between the monomers of the globular domain and thus lowers the stability of their association.
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We surmised, since I hadn't had a cold sore in 10 years, that it may have gone away.
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These internal fissions, he surmised, explained the low voter turnout in traditionally Republican areas of the state.
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Mariam did surmise, by the way Nana said the word, that it was an ugly, loathsome thing to be a harami, like an insect, like the scurrying cockroaches Nana was always cursing and sweeping out of the kolba.
Excerpt: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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He insisted that the data supplied by the claimants rested ‘on surmise and inapposite extrapolations from animal studies and industrial accidents’.
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One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches.
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We can surmise that one of his commanders must have stumbled upon our plan.
Man of Honour
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Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the kings power for another octennial cycle.
Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King. § 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term
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So there will necessarily be strings attached to any economic support it might think fit to give which, it is reasonable to surmise, will also be of the 'breadline' variety.
Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
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Thank you for this article, which states the facts that I surmised but never had the opportunity to track down and confirm.
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A more sophisticated student may surmise that, as the parents are replaced by their parents, the binary encoding and continued fractions come into the play.
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(Protogaea, 1680), although he did not surmise how much time was needed for petrifactive processes to occur.
EVOLUTIONISM
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This is pure surmise on my part.
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I was not sure that this surmise was not due to an over-active imagination, but I was determined to get away from the man's scrutiny, so I called a taxicab and gave the driver my address.
Jacqueline of Golden River
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Manson correctly surmised that chyluria and elephantiasis were manifestations of lymphatic obstruction by adult filarial worms.
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As you may have surmised from the infrequent updating, the NICU is keeping me busy.
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Judging by the tales I have read around and about recently, I surmise that some of my readers are rather culinarily challenged.
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It is reasonable to surmise she will stoutly support the prime minister.
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It has been surmised that some of the so-called secessionists would continue to refer to the resolution to vindicate their demand for a plebiscite in the disputed state.
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Either way, none of us will be the worse for the truly incredible journey to inquire and discover what can be surmised about Jesus 'Lost Years by taking the questions right to the ancient temple of the Hindus called Jagannath in Puri, India, where some say Jesus spent several years (the "some" include the present spiritual leader of the Hindu religion, the Shankaracharya) and a Buddhist monastery high in the Himalayas in Ladakh, India, where an ancient scroll has long been held to exist that purportedly answers all the questions about the Missing Years of Jesus (see: www. jesus-in-india-the-movie.com)
Paul Davids: Jesus' Lost Years May Finally Have Been Found
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That a long ship has been overturned on the moor is as much as we may surmise of a beehive cell thrown up along the Tyne.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Blix surmised that the bluffing was a cheap and effective deterrent.
Tcpalm.com Stories
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As to who of the above appeared on the sacred gallops on bicycles, who on hacks and who in motors, we can only surmise.
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When he came in, he didn't look up, so she surmised that he was in a bad mood.
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Kuhn surmised that the sulfa drugs must be competitors for the same biological receptors used by natural growth factors.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
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Individual charismatics, even relative newcomers, easily surmised what was expected of them in the way of belief and conduct, and there was no shortage of cues to help them along.
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Ben Franklin gave his own surmise as to the aptness of the rattler as a symbol.
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Steven and some friends of his are all quite adamant that it was a reddish colour, not pink as the reporter surmised.
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I would surmise that the original religion was animalism, leading to the worship of Nature, the Sun and the Moon.
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She was chagrined to learn that she had been discomposed not by 'a too exuberant financier, 'as she had surmised, but by, as "Waring" called Browning, the "subtlest assertor of the Soul in song.
Life of Robert Browning
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The adjudicator surmises that if the appellant were in detention the police would not be searching for him.
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To say that Bush was planning to invade is not unlike saying he had an invasion plan if we chose to invade (for those to definitively say one or the other would mean they were privvy to top secret meetings … unfortunately, these statements often come from those who surmise) … the difference could very much be spin or perspective, but that’s really neither here nor there.
Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002
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Outside the kitchen, I could taste the air and know that a storm would be arriving in six days, catch a snowflake on my tongue and surmise when spring would come or discern the diluvial temperament of the river by sampling its waters.
Archive 2003-11-01
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I felt terribly guilty but surmised she would never find out.
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I surmised that a crossing must exist, since the path could not start and finish in isolation.
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I would surmise that the offending editor thought that the point of the squib was merely Churchill's strong castigation of the ‘tedious nonsense’ in ministerial minutes.
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The doctor stopped walking, and McNulty surmised that they must be outside Marx's room.
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My surmise turned out to be right.
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It also, one might surmise, selects for suspicion.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They could not determine the composition of the object, but they surmise that it might be a large blob of silicate material from the mantle enriched by about 25 percent stishovite.
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Huxley surmised that life lived as the satisfaction of one desire after another would result in shallow and egotistical people.
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They surmise that we need new blood from outside the industry in order to add energy and vitality to the sorry state of the business.
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It also, one might surmise, selects for suspicion.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The king surmised the girls were dancing their shoes to bits and put out a general announcement to the kingdom.
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The holy man quickly surmises the scale of the problem.
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Newton could not explain the coplanar orbits of planets and surmised,
Kant's Philosophical Development
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He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets.
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One can surmise their calculations.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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a certain fat and oiliness, which is of a nature akin to warmth; or simply, as surmised in the preceding article, from the confinement and separation of the air.
The New Organon
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He blends surmise, fact and hypothesis with impressive ease, resisting the temptation to sink into melodrama.
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The interspace between the thoraces may, however, have simply been the addition of the first artist who portrayed the Maids (from imagination?); then it may be surmised that they were ectopagous twins.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king's power for another octennial cycle.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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From the way he kept nervously lifting a finger to touch his eye patch, she surmised also that he was not sure whether she would like it.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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From his letter I surmised that he was unhappy.
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Perhaps, some surmised, the police operation was not really meant to keep order at all.
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However, she surmised that he would not want her to come to him willingly.
