guesswork

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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

Which has required some guesswork about what that essence really was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

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

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

Nobel Fresh Cart Chirashi Set For 4 – Nobel Fresh Cart ships high-quality fish, seafood, and curated bundles that take the guesswork out of planning a meal.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman