guesstimate
Example Sentences
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Our leading hypothesis is that phages use CtrA to guesstimate when there will be enough bacteria nearby sporting pili and flagella that they can readily infect.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2022
“It was a guesstimate, a very rough guesstimate,” Oathes says.
From Slate • Sep. 13, 2022
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
