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surmise

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I would venture to surmise that young start-ups have almost no need to test anything.

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Quick take

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of surmise gathered in one view.

noun

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

verb

infer from incomplete evidence

verb

imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for surmise.

verb

infer from incomplete evidence

verb

imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"

See also: suspect

Example sentences

1

I would venture to surmise that young start-ups have almost no need to test anything.

2

All I can surmise is that something lit the touchpaper that started a chain reaction.

3

So I surmise that both society's outsource their web pages to some third-party \nhackshop.

4

What you can surmise from that is that they've both probably taken some acid in their lifetimes.

5

I would surmise that most readers of Hacker News either use an ad-blocker or don't click on ads often/ever.

6

We can surmise this by observing the banking website had a password to protect the account holder.

7

But if we're to gloss over the petty revisionism and surmise a greater theme or point, Palin is still wrong.

8

I surmise that the mice have tunneled through the back of the hillside, between the tires, and up into the hollow cavities which support the ceiling.

9

One could surmise that they are not showing female employees in the company photos in the hopes that male applicants will find them attractive.

10

If anything I would surmise that engineers have a higher percentage of that subset, but I don't have any more data than the article's writer to prove that.

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So based on reading the comments I can surmise that this is just a wealthy kid who wrote an overly hyped trivial app, got his banker/attorney parents to pay celebrities to appear in his cliched demo video and due to the pull of his parents, was able to convince Yahoo to buy his company.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use surmise in a sentence?

I would venture to surmise that young start-ups have almost no need to test anything.

What does surmise mean?

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

What part of speech is surmise?

surmise is commonly used as noun, verb.