Example Sentences

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Industry experts have estimated it may take another $1 billion to finish it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

More recent mission concepts have estimated even longer travel times.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Though a precise accounting hasn’t yet emerged, Minneapolis and St. Paul have estimated hundreds of millions of dollars in lost wages and business revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

South Korean and Western intelligence agencies have estimated that the North has sent thousands of soldiers to Russia, primarily to the Kursk region, along with artillery shells, missiles and rocket systems.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Schaan and Ranzi have estimated that building a single geoglyph 600 feet across would require moving ten thousand cubic yards of earth— a big task without metal tools.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann