guesswork
Example Sentences
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While salary-transparency laws don’t necessarily guarantee you’ll receive the highest possible salary, they do remove much of the guesswork from negotiations — and experts say that alone gives job seekers a stronger hand.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
A few variables can take some of the guesswork out of trying to identify a bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
"After 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
Without that, fertiliser application is guesswork, not farming.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
It’s an aspect of the art of writing which depends on intuition, experience, and guesswork, but there is also an overarching guideline.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
