guesswork

Example Sentences

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Which has required some guesswork about what that essence really was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

Intelligence analysts don’t have to rely so much on guesswork.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

Salon has curated a broad list to fit every taste, desire and age range – breaking them down into categories and detailing the runtimes to take the guesswork out of the process.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

For the past few months, investors and policymakers have had to rely on guesswork to determine the path of inflation.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Likewise, even though we know that in early seventh-century China ‘orchestras’ of instruments played together, what they played is guesswork.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall