guesstimate
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One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
Brennan: Like even that number you cited — the 75% number — I don’t know that it’s necessarily fair to extrapolate from one anonymous player’s memory or guesstimate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
A guesstimate that didn’t sit well with Nicklaus’ rival turned friend.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
So the recipe was part oral history, part complete guesstimate.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
This was only a preliminary estimate, a guesstimate really; the government will gather more data and revise that number in the coming months.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2019
Earlier this year, Forbes guesstimated Diddy was the richest man in hip-hop, with a net worth around $820 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2017
Prince Graeme claims Australian authorities "guesstimated" how much the principality had earned from tourism.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2017
When the controversy began, Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele guesstimated that 99 percent of voters would breeze through the polls.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
He guesstimated that the installation would set him back about $2,400.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2010
It may contain one or some of the guesstimated 60 left alive in the wilderness Java Rhinoceros, it may not.
From Time Magazine Archive
But not everyone completes it, she said: "Oftentimes, we have to still do some guesstimating."
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
But I'm not great at guesstimating time right now because it's not real.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2021
But for now, Kaiser is guesstimating their numbers have held above 2 million.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2020
The methods for guesstimating carbohydrate intake also seemed imprecise, Mr. Costik found, and the process generated a lot of wasted data.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
As a result, the Fed's policy of "data dependence" may turn out to involve a good bit of guesstimating, with each Fed official playing their own hunch about where the economy really stands.
From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2015
