guesstimate
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By my guesstimate, that was legal up until Malcolm was 22?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
So the recipe was part oral history, part complete guesstimate.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
The libraries closed March 13, and as far as I know there has been no announcement of a guesstimate of the opening of the buildings.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2020
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
The theft of industrial and trade secrets has been referred to as the single largest loss of American wealth, guesstimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2016
He guesstimated that the installation would set him back about $2,400.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2010
Drop in switch, fakie, or backward, and be confident with your "guesstimated" speed.
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
