estimate
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The Sierra Club, for example, wanted companies to estimate not only their own emissions but those from their supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Management also raised its fiscal-year outlook for expenses to between $1.59 billion and $1.63 billion, above a previous estimate of $1.52 billion to $1.53 billion.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The “.5” in the company’s estimate of its TAM is false precision.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
They estimate that, had they not been so generous, their net worth would be twice as much as it is now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
This estimate was very roughly corroborated two decades later by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, who destroyed the annual harvest of four adjacent Haudenosaunee villages to deter future attacks.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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