guess
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“I guess … I have a tougher head. So then he started complaining and all that. He was saying, ‘You headbutted me, you’re cheating.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
There’s some context in which I guess it could be right.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
How much higher rates must go to stop that spread is unclear, and Warsh didn’t guess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"My father didn't attend and said he would never bend the knee to anyone. I guess that rubbed off on me," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“I guess it depends if you have good advice to give.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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That result highlights an important distinction between simply choosing letters that appear often and choosing guesses that provide the greatest amount of new information.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Still, its role as the Federal Reserve’s primary inflation gauge puts it at the center of traders’ guesses about what the Fed will do next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
With that, here are my best guesses on the can’t-miss matches of the first round:
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
But those are my are my guesses right there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Ranofer thought he could guess the causes of this strange preoccupation, and his guesses gave him considerable satisfaction.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Gemini found "public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test", a Google official told the BBC, noting that in each instance "the model stopped".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“I’d never have guessed that,” Turnquist said, adding that a 5% to 10% decline would have been his call, given the backdrop.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
Who would have guessed that night how easily we would learn again to turn on each other?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
I did some back-of-my-notepad math and realized you can drive massive distances faster than I would have guessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The event was in a town house that she guessed the university owned.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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“You’re kind of guessing what’s going to happen in two years, and no one would have guessed that there’d be tariffs now” two years ago, Chen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
There might be fewer people guessing who he is these days - but if EsDeeKid's only UK festival appearance this summer is anything to go by, no-one seems to care.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
I’m guessing that among today’s burgeoning cinephiles, silent movies evoke an ancient vibe that is, in its own way, a little hardcore.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
It’s about making sure that when your children say, “Here’s what Mom and Dad would want,” they’re not guessing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Although, to be honest, I'm only guessing about Dad.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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