estimation
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"For the estimation, we assumed students would be leaving home around 8 a.m.,"
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
In Blunt's own estimation, his eighth album, Airplane Mode, is his best work in years.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Used as an estimation of casualties — just put a number in front, “20 NAZA”— it suggests a battle calculation that has permitted the detachment of moral consquences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Yes, in my personal estimation, making an entire batch of soup is easier than a dedicated vegetable-chopping session.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
I could go back to the pile of blankets that passes for my bed and wait for morning to come, which by my estimation would be another few hours or so.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
City lawmakers proposed lengthy exemptions, which led to meager revenue estimations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Many analysts have been less optimistic in their estimations.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026
The pair came away from the meeting with differing estimations on the progress toward guaranteeing a peace deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Facial age estimations will be conducted by ID verification company Persona on the Roblox app, with images and video to be deleted "immediately" after processing.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Pure mathematics does indeed deal with certainties, but its applications are only as good as the underlying empirical assumptions, simplifications, and estimations that go into them.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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