estimate

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Maguire said other students were also anxious about grades from earlier years being taken to estimate their grades, which they felt were "not a true reflection" of their additional efforts in their final years.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

This is up from a projected 4.2% in last month’s estimate and 1.2% before the Iran war began.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Using a technique known as Approximate Bayesian Computation, the researchers worked backward from the fossil record to estimate how far organisms spread and how intensely they competed for resources.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

The trustees, however, include in their report an estimate of when the trust funds would be depleted if combined, in order to illustrate the actuarial status of the Social Security program as a whole.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

This estimate was very roughly corroborated two decades later by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, who destroyed the annual harvest of four adjacent Haudenosaunee villages to deter future attacks.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann