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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
Florida homeowners who have applied for the homestead exemption can estimate how much they would save under Amendment 3 on this website created by the state.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The three items were sold to a British private collector at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in the Cotswolds on Wednesday, fetching a hammer price of £5,000 - double the estimate.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Adults are particularly accursed when they try to estimate other people’s knowledge and skills.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
They are yet to be given a date for a court hearing but Campaner estimates the investigating stage would conclude by the end of the year, with a prospective court case starting next year.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
First, the game sold millions of copies, and there are estimates that up to 3 million teenagers played it.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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California Gig Workers Union spokesman Tim Sandoval said the organization will eventually represent all of the estimated 300,000 to 350,000 ride-share drivers in the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The team also estimated how quickly the brown dwarf is losing material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Signal has an estimated 40-70 million users - a drop in the ocean next to WhatsApp, which has billions.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
A cheerful Start! message and an estimated arrival time hover in the center of my vision, waiting for me to follow the map.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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
However, estimating the current scale of SpaceX’s computing business can be difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Even there, the population is small, with the most recent survey estimating just 140 mature individuals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The five-year pledge comes alongside research from TD Economics estimating that overall Canadian nation-building capital investments could reach up to $1.2 trillion by 2035.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
I wasn’t sure how many there had been, and I thought that Gearhart was only estimating.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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