guesstimate
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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
“It was a guesstimate, a very rough guesstimate,” Oathes says.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2022
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2022
Brennan: Like even that number you cited — the 75% number — I don’t know that it’s necessarily fair to extrapolate from one anonymous player’s memory or guesstimate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
A guesstimate that didn’t sit well with Nicklaus’ rival turned friend.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
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
The academic later "guesstimated" the Scottish cost could be between £150m and £200m - a suggestion Mr Salmond agreed with.
From BBC ● May 29, 2014
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
Drop in switch, fakie, or backward, and be confident with your "guesstimated" speed.
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
Until then, Los Angeles County's Kurian and her peers will keep "guesstimating" where residents need more help.
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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