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The researchers estimate that the candidate world is a gas giant roughly the size of Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
With a market cap of $2.63 billion, Boise trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 0.4, based on the consensus 12-month revenue estimate among analysts polled by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
That beat the estimate of ¥510.7 billion in a poll of analysts by data provider Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The three items were sold to a British private collector at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in the Cotswolds on Wednesday, fetching a hammer price of £5,000 - double the estimate.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
To check this estimate, Mann and Fields turned to astronomical tables.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Additionally, readers should note that historical net-worth estimates are often debated due to differences in record-keeping and varying valuation methods.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Newport Beach expected intense surf Friday, but the high tide turned out to be much worse than the estimates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
They are yet to be given a date for a court hearing but Campaner estimates the investigating stage would conclude by the end of the year, with a prospective court case starting next year.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Logan estimates about 40 percent of US soybeans are exported, with China traditionally a key buyer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
By everyone’s best estimates, she had been outside for approximately twenty minutes when the fire chief opened the door, and in the snow for perhaps two.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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The users spend an average of about 90 minutes a day scrolling through short videos, Reckitt estimated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Based on the properties of the system and the estimated rate of mass transfer, researchers believe the star could continue drawing matter from its companion for billions of years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
According to the International Energy Agency, its diesel production is estimated to have fallen by nearly 30%.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
But it’s more than just Greenland sharks at risk, with an estimated 79 million sharks dying in fisheries in 2019.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Both suffered from prolonged exposure in waters estimated at 48 degrees yesterday when their kayak overturned.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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"We're now estimating the size of the movement of Earth's mass center back and forth each year to be about half of what we believed it to be eight years ago," said Argus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
They claimed that data limitations in the national health expenditure accounts prevented them from estimating the cost of new vision and hearing benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
That commentary suggests the risk to September jobs could be higher than what analysts are estimating.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Even there, the population is small, with the most recent survey estimating just 140 mature individuals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
At 0330 in the morning he departed from Key West estimating his arrival in Ravenel at 0520.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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