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The researchers estimate that the candidate world is a gas giant roughly the size of Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
Fears about artificial-intelligence profits moderated as Wall Street analysts said a reduced revenue estimate from OpenAI could reflect technical accounting issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Evidence about the true level of autism relies on surveys that have not been done for nine years, so the review team have had to estimate what has happened since.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
For a rough estimate for what certain items in your home might fetch, try taking photos and then asking Google Lens, eBay Virtual Search or an AI bot like ChatGPT or Google Gemini.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Over and over, Caesar throws, then pulls the rope in, measuring its length to estimate depth.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Out of all the heating sources, however, it estimates that households using heating oil will be the hardest hit, paying about 50% more in heating costs than last winter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a fertility doctor in the Bay Area, estimates that about 30% of her female patients are already taking peptides when they walk into her office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Newport Beach expected intense surf Friday, but the high tide turned out to be much worse than the estimates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
In August, the government launched a national action plan to tackle waste crime, which it estimates costs the country more than £1bn every year.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
When Cortes and his Indian allies finally attacked, the Mexica resisted so fiercely despite their weakness that the siege has often been described as the costliest battle in history—casualty estimates range up to 100,000.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The users spend an average of about 90 minutes a day scrolling through short videos, Reckitt estimated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Diesel production in Russia dropped by an estimated 30%, according to the International Energy Agency.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The team also estimated how quickly the brown dwarf is losing material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
But it’s more than just Greenland sharks at risk, with an estimated 79 million sharks dying in fisheries in 2019.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder bills, which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything seems to be aboveboard.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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"We're now estimating the size of the movement of Earth's mass center back and forth each year to be about half of what we believed it to be eight years ago," said Argus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
That finding challenges the usual way scientists interpret thermal stress and provides a new approach for estimating total heat exposure across coastal ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
They claimed that data limitations in the national health expenditure accounts prevented them from estimating the cost of new vision and hearing benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
However, estimating the current scale of SpaceX’s computing business can be difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
As we walked, we concentrated on listening to our breathing, calculating the distance to the next landmark, and estimating the remaining time.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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