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

“Based on personal experience,” he wrote, “I feel that this little indicator would remove the guesswork of which side I want to park.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

This image was created in 1904, based on little more than clever guesswork, by a Japanese physicist named Hantaro Nagaoka.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson