educated guess

Example Sentences

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But that's more of an educated guess at this stage.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

And so he employs other tools: the hunch, the educated guess, even out-and-out speculation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The BLS has been refining its birth-death model, but to some extent, it will always be an educated guess.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

Instead, we get a handful of woeful papers, which amounts to little more than a slightly educated guess.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2025

For convenience, Hutton had assumed that the mountain had the same density as ordinary stone, about 2.5 times that of water, but this was little more than an educated guess.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson