informed guess
Example Sentences
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But until peers actually vote, that's just an informed guess.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
Penrose pieced together clues that suggested a conjecture—an informed guess, not an airtight proof—that general relativity would never make that prediction.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2021
Each year the seasonal flu vaccine is designed to cover two strains each of influenza A and B, based on the public-health community’s best informed guess about which strains will be dominant that year.
From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2019
The researchers observed how the water and the bacteria interacted; based on those observations, they made an informed guess about what the bacteria’s ice-making proteins were actually doing.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2016
Some time later, I made an informed guess that it had been a large moray eel.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
