estimating

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"I really hope that somebody jumps in now and does something like that" for Bundibugyo, Geisbert said, estimating that it could be done in as little as six or seven months.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

About 100 million people are on them worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and with the University College London estimating that number to be 1.6 million in the UK alone.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

SpaceX, which aims to debut in June and is estimating a public net worth of nearly $2 trillion, will not be like any other ticker.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

The Congressional Budget Office released a report last February estimating that the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted in 2032.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos