guesswork

Example Sentences

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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

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

“A lot of guesswork, if you ask me.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling