guesstimate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of guesstimate
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Our leading hypothesis is that phages use CtrA to guesstimate when there will be enough bacteria nearby sporting pili and flagella that they can readily infect.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
Brennan: Like even that number you cited — the 75% number — I don’t know that it’s necessarily fair to extrapolate from one anonymous player’s memory or guesstimate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
No matter, it is possible to guesstimate the cost.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
This was only a preliminary estimate, a guesstimate really; the government will gather more data and revise that number in the coming months.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2019
Earlier this year, Forbes guesstimated Diddy was the richest man in hip-hop, with a net worth around $820 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2017
The academic later "guesstimated" the Scottish cost could be between £150m and £200m - a suggestion Mr Salmond agreed with.
From BBC ● May 29, 2014
When the controversy began, Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele guesstimated that 99 percent of voters would breeze through the polls.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
He guesstimated that the installation would set him back about $2,400.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2010
DeWitt Wallace's money-minting Reader's Digest, which climbed to a guesstimated 8,000,000 U.S. circulation, came out of the war in the pink of health.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until then, Los Angeles County's Kurian and her peers will keep "guesstimating" where residents need more help.
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
But I'm not great at guesstimating time right now because it's not real.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2021
But for now, Kaiser is guesstimating their numbers have held above 2 million.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2020
The methods for guesstimating carbohydrate intake also seemed imprecise, Mr. Costik found, and the process generated a lot of wasted data.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
As a result, the Fed's policy of "data dependence" may turn out to involve a good bit of guesstimating, with each Fed official playing their own hunch about where the economy really stands.
From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2015
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