estimate
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Multiplying that figure by 100 is how farmers estimate mice populations, which means there were at least 3,000 to 4,000 burrows per hectare.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Officials estimate that about 115 people have been displaced.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
By measuring growth, they could estimate whether a mutation helped, hurt, or had little effect.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
He then used the change in prediction-market implied probabilities of a normalization of Strait of Hormuz traffic to benchmark the moves in macro assets and estimate how much further markets could run.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
Geographer Carl Sauer published the first modern estimate of northwest Mexico’s pre-Columbian population in 1935.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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