estimate

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The projected operating profit of $1.11 billion is up 33% from a year earlier and beat a FactSet-compiled estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

And he doesn’t expect supply and demand for HDDs to reach parity until 2029, which is 12 months beyond his original estimate.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

The Cranford, N.J., couple estimate they’ve spent more than $500 on buckets since they began collecting them in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

The BEA releases its final estimate for fourth-quarter gross-domestic-product growth.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

The first is that a pretty reliable figure for the time light takes to travel from the sun to the Earth was available seventeen years after Rømer’s first estimate of eleven minutes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton