ballpark figure
Example Sentences
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An accountant exasperatingly asks for a ballpark figure, and Escola’s Bernadette, wiggling like a charmed snake with their hands on their hips, asks, “Is this a ballpark figure?”
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024
“The ballpark figure we’re looking at is getting to the consumption of about 80 gallons per person per day,” said Adel Hagekhalil, the district’s general manager.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2022
But experts say the $45 billion included in the proposal is a realistic ballpark figure for eliminating what’s estimated to remain.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2021
But I suspect their ballpark figure might even be too low; they arrived at it by taking the old IRS estimate, and adjusting it for income growth and inflation.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2020
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, it would cost a ballpark figure of about £10bn per year.
From BBC • May 11, 2017
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
