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This allowed them to estimate each participant's overall genetic tendency toward higher or lower LDL cholesterol.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Anthropic is likely to tell investors its potential revenue opportunities are above $30 trillion, topping SpaceX’s $28.5 trillion estimate, sources said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The S&P 500’s forward P/E has declined even though the index’s price has increased 18% over the past year, because its rolling 12-month EPS estimate has increased by 35%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The duties impact some $20 billion in goods, or about 5.5 percent of Canadian exports to the United States, economists estimate.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
I try to estimate how many he’s had.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Revenue rose 14% to $4.35 billion, compared with analyst estimates of $4.27 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
No single study can fully define the rate of CTE among NFL players, but "Daneshvar and colleagues provide one of the most informative estimates to date," they said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Meta shares are trading at 17 times analyst earnings-per-share estimates over the next 12 months, within 10% of their trailing three-year trough valuation multiple, according to Mahaney.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Forbes estimates the Clippers are worth $7.5 billion today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nobody knows how many people hike the Appalachian Trail, but most estimates put the number at around three or four million a year.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Red-billed queleas can gather in flocks of up to two million and are considered the most abundant wild bird on Earth, with an estimated 1.5 billion breeding adults.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Two additional ice islands, with estimated areas of about 97 and 87 sq km, could eventually detach as existing rifts continue spreading across the floating ice tongue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Delfin also holds major stakes in the bank Monte dei Paschi, the insurer Generali and the real estate giant Covivio, with a total estimated value of more than 40 billion euros.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The city had to bridge a $1.2 billion deficit to balance its budget this year and faces an estimated $700 million deficit next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
He wasn't even a member of the German American Bund, a Hitler-endorsed organization comprising an estimated 25,000 dues-paying Germans living in America.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The team also used generalized estimating equation models to examine how cardiovascular factors were related to changes in cognition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“An offshore field with 15 to 20 wells might produce 150,000 barrels a day,” Robotti said, while estimating that an onshore well might produce “a thousand barrels a day if you are lucky.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The staggering $1.4 trillion in alleged damages comes from estimating the number of affected users in the four states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Company officials said they remain “committed to the fastest remediation possible,” estimating that the cleanup was about 80% complete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
It was the equivalent of pulling a frantic all-nighter to get a paper done in college, only Barack was estimating it would take him roughly a couple of months to get the book finished.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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