guesswork

Example Sentences

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Intelligence analysts don’t have to rely so much on guesswork.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

“Based on personal experience,” he wrote, “I feel that this little indicator would remove the guesswork of which side I want to park.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

For the past few months, investors and policymakers have had to rely on guesswork to determine the path of inflation.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

The one great thing about death is that it takes the guesswork out of all of this, or at least it’s supposed to.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

Likewise, even though we know that in early seventh-century China ‘orchestras’ of instruments played together, what they played is guesswork.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall