guesstimate
Example Sentences
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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
He said the figure of 300,000 troops in the security forces was a guesstimate because of the many so-called ghost soldiers, where commanders list non-existent personnel to collect their paychecks.
From Seattle Times • May 26, 2021
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
