guessing

Example Sentences

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Identifying her own perimenopause symptoms, she recalls, was a medical guessing game.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2026

Conrad says, “I didn’t know any of the subjects of that piece; they weren’t at my disposal. I would have been just guessing, and that’s a bad place for any writer to be.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Rolling a predetermined number on a dice nine times in a row, or guessing a seven-digit number first time, have odds of one in 10 million.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

But guessing which companies will initiate their first dividend can be a way to get in on the ground floor.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Card playing, guessing games, impersonations, listening to gramophone records, slide lectures, reading aloud—the men found ways of entertaining themselves and keeping their thoughts occupied in the long, dark winter months.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong