guesstimate
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By my guesstimate, that was legal up until Malcolm was 22?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
But that 80 percent stat is at best a guesstimate, according to a New York Times article.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2024
Our leading hypothesis is that phages use CtrA to guesstimate when there will be enough bacteria nearby sporting pili and flagella that they can readily infect.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
He said the figure of 300,000 troops in the security forces was a guesstimate because of the many so-called ghost soldiers, where commanders list non-existent personnel to collect their paychecks.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2021
Earlier this year, Forbes guesstimated Diddy was the richest man in hip-hop, with a net worth around $820 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2017
Prince Graeme claims Australian authorities "guesstimated" how much the principality had earned from tourism.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2017
The few studies that have been done rely on lots of potentially unreliable numbers—the guesstimated cost to consumers of using ATMs, for example.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2012
He guesstimated that the installation would set him back about $2,400.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 29, 2010
It may contain one or some of the guesstimated 60 left alive in the wilderness Java Rhinoceros, it may not.
From Time Magazine Archive
There’s nothing inherently wrong with guesstimating economic opportunities, but the more prominent, inflated, or specific they are, the worse of a sign it can be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But not everyone completes it, she said: "Oftentimes, we have to still do some guesstimating."
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
But I'm not great at guesstimating time right now because it's not real.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2021
But for now, Kaiser is guesstimating their numbers have held above 2 million.
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2020
The methods for guesstimating carbohydrate intake also seemed imprecise, Mr. Costik found, and the process generated a lot of wasted data.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
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