surmise
verb (used with object)
to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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“And I think a lot of the other clinicians are surmising the same thing now.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2022