wild guess
Example Sentences
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“As far as predicting future rupture events,” he wrote, “I think the estimate would be close to a wild guess as many of the factors cannot be determined.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
“To me, the owner-occupied rent is somewhat a wild guess in the official data,” Sohn said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
Do you take a wild guess or ask a person at the gas station and hope the fuel you pick doesn’t damage the engine?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The nature of the clue made it confounding: The country ended in an “h” so you couldn’t even venture a wild guess.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022
If they had merely glimpsed the statue through a car window at sixty miles per hour, they could only have made a wild guess at its authenticity.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
