guesstimate
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One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
Brennan: Like even that number you cited — the 75% number — I don’t know that it’s necessarily fair to extrapolate from one anonymous player’s memory or guesstimate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
So the recipe was part oral history, part complete guesstimate.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
Ulis posits that the FBI’s search area in 1971 was too far east — that the FBI’s guesstimate of the plane’s flight path was off.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
This was only a preliminary estimate, a guesstimate really; the government will gather more data and revise that number in the coming months.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2019
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
The academic later "guesstimated" the Scottish cost could be between £150m and £200m - a suggestion Mr Salmond agreed with.
From BBC ● May 29, 2014
The few studies that have been done rely on lots of potentially unreliable numbers—the guesstimated cost to consumers of using ATMs, for example.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 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
But not everyone completes it, she said: "Oftentimes, we have to still do some guesstimating."
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
