guesswork
Example Sentences
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Our five-week email course is designed to take the guesswork and anxiety out of developing contacts into relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
That has Wall Street nervous about potential rate volatility, particularly if the Fed suddenly says less than it has been over the past 30 years — or leaves markets doing more guesswork.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
"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
Without that, fertiliser application is guesswork, not farming.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
This image was created in 1904, based on little more than clever guesswork, by a Japanese physicist named Hantaro Nagaoka.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
