guesswork

Example Sentences

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A few variables can take some of the guesswork out of trying to identify a bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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

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

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

Denna shrugged and headed back into the trees for more firewood and I began the elaborate guesswork of how much denner it would take to poison a five ton lizard.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss