guesswork

Example Sentences

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"After 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence."

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

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

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

Fundamentally, most of the numbers in companies’ financial statements are built on estimates, guesswork and assumptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 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

The repercussion track was different every time, depending on how badly you’d screwed up, and really, as my mom liked to point out, it was just a bunch of guesswork.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin