was estimating
- past progressive of estimate.
Example Sentences
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Micron anticipates adjusted earnings per share will be $19.15 at the midpoint, plus or minus 40 cents, compared with the $12.03 Wall Street was estimating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
In a note dated late Monday, the brokerage said in addition to an increase of 50 basis points in March and 25 basis points in May, it was estimating a 25 basis-point hike in June.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
The New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish was estimating it could take at least five days to restore the water system there.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
By 1999, the government was estimating that the group had seventy million adherents; that year, more than ten thousand of them staged a silent protest in front of the central government compound, in Beijing.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 19, 2019
It was the equivalent of pulling a frantic all-nighter to get a paper done in college, only Barack was estimating it would take him roughly a couple of months to get the book finished.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
