guesswork

Example Sentences

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A few variables can take some of the guesswork out of trying to identify a bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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

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

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

"This is where a bit of guesswork comes in," explains Bigwood.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 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