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
"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
Which has required some guesswork about what that essence really was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Denna shrugged and headed back into the trees for more firewood and I began the elaborate guesswork of how much denner it would take to poison a five ton lizard.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
