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guesstimate

[ges-tuh-meyt, ges-tuh-mit, -meyt] / ˈgɛs təˌmeɪt, ˈgɛs tə mɪt, -ˌmeɪt /
























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By my guesstimate, that was legal up until Malcolm was 22?

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2024

“It was a guesstimate, a very rough guesstimate,” Oathes says.

From Slate Sep. 13, 2022

One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.

From Scientific American Jun. 16, 2022

So the recipe was part oral history, part complete guesstimate.

From Salon Mar. 18, 2022

No matter, it is possible to guesstimate the cost.

From Seattle Times Nov. 12, 2021

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

Prince Graeme claims Australian authorities "guesstimated" how much the principality had earned from tourism.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2017

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

He hired Ernest Robert Breech, 49, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., as executive vice president and director, at a salary guesstimated at over $200,000.

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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