Example Sentences

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Many fans have surmised that Styles is the ex in the song.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023

It is not true, as many have surmised, that cop-sized adults travel down slides necessarily faster than children by dint of their weight.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2023

The group argues that the museum should have surmised from this contact that Hans Werner was not authorized to sell the archive.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

By now readers will have surmised that this is a novel of big ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Dorothy’s mother-in-law tried to dig in her heels against the growing distance between her son and daughter-in-law that she must have surmised for some time to be inevitable.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly