What is "must've"

Usage examples of "must've".

The anonymizer did tell Triple-X that Renegade was in Austin, but, when he'd typed BRB, the hacker must've run a further test, which showed that the length of time it took the pings to get to and from Renegade's computer was far too short for the electrons to make the round-trip all the way to Texas and back.

Steuben must've switched on the external microphones, for the assemblyman's voice sounded as clear as if she'd been in the compartment with them.

Dellray nodded, but coolly, and Sachs deduced that, as with Rhyme, the defense lawyer must've gotten acquittals for suspects that the agent had collared.

Once Doug let go of Edith and she straightened up, Anson surmised, 'Gordette must've been the one who malfed your suit.

I told him the story of the trick and asked him how he thought it had been done, and he said and I quote, 'It's bleedin' obvious, innit, he must've 'ad a bleedin' time machine.

He was in his twenties and was wearing the blue jean jacket that must've shed the denim fibers found on the woman's body.

Even if this was already a resort and he didn't have to rezone, local council must've agreed to his building permit.

Before he died Phate must've programmed it to crack the bureau system and arrange the assault.

He pulled a dusty burlap bag out from behind a rock, where he must've stashed it recently.

There must've been six or seven hundred people, just in the city block I was on, that were crushed to death.

Must've lost some of its electrostatic charge while it was sitting in the pocket.

Then she put it into her purse and looked up at the wall, at an eye chart that must've been thirty or forty years old.

This guy must've had a bad week, got both my arms behind my head in a full nelson and rammed my face into the concrete floor until my teeth bit open the inside of my cheek and my eye was swollen shut and was bleeding, and after I said, stop, I could look down and there was a print of half my face in blood on the floor.

You must've been sitting in the Denver gate house, to get here this fast.

Another ghostly fire blazed in a fireplace which must've required regular harvesting of giant sequoias.