guesstimate
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By my guesstimate, that was legal up until Malcolm was 22?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
Our leading hypothesis is that phages use CtrA to guesstimate when there will be enough bacteria nearby sporting pili and flagella that they can readily infect.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022
“It was a guesstimate, a very rough guesstimate,” Oathes says.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2022
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
No matter, it is possible to guesstimate the cost.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Earlier this year, Forbes guesstimated Diddy was the richest man in hip-hop, with a net worth around $820 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2017
Prince Graeme claims Australian authorities "guesstimated" how much the principality had earned from tourism.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2017
The theft of industrial and trade secrets has been referred to as the single largest loss of American wealth, guesstimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2016
He guesstimated that the installation would set him back about $2,400.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2010
He hired Ernest Robert Breech, 49, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., as executive vice president and director, at a salary guesstimated at over $200,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
There’s nothing inherently wrong with guesstimating economic opportunities, but the more prominent, inflated, or specific they are, the worse of a sign it can be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Until then, Los Angeles County's Kurian and her peers will keep "guesstimating" where residents need more help.
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
But I'm not great at guesstimating time right now because it's not real.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2021
But for now, Kaiser is guesstimating their numbers have held above 2 million.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2020
The methods for guesstimating carbohydrate intake also seemed imprecise, Mr. Costik found, and the process generated a lot of wasted data.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
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