guesswork
Americannoun
noun
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a set of conclusions, estimates, etc, arrived at by guessing
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the process of making guesses
Etymology
Origin of guesswork
Example Sentences
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While salary-transparency laws don’t necessarily guarantee you’ll receive the highest possible salary, they do remove much of the guesswork from negotiations — and experts say that alone gives job seekers a stronger hand.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Swift has ties to several US cities and guesswork about the locale has reached fever pitch.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
"After 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
Intelligence analysts don’t have to rely so much on guesswork.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
This image was created in 1904, based on little more than clever guesswork, by a Japanese physicist named Hantaro Nagaoka.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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