guesswork

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"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

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

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

Fundamentally, most of the numbers in companies’ financial statements are built on estimates, guesswork and assumptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 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