educated guess
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They take indirect clues—movement, blood flow, skin temperature—and make an educated guess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
But that's more of an educated guess at this stage.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
The BLS has been refining its birth-death model, but to some extent, it will always be an educated guess.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
Instead, we get a handful of woeful papers, which amounts to little more than a slightly educated guess.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025
For convenience, Hutton had assumed that the mountain had the same density as ordinary stone, about 2.5 times that of water, but this was little more than an educated guess.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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