guesstimate
Example Sentences
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She’s now dealing with the books in her home, which she guesstimates to be around 800 — dispensing with three boxes a month.
From Washington Post
One of the panel’s commissioners, citing unidentified testimony and staff briefings, said that “there’s somewhere, depending on whose guesstimate you take, within $80 to $380 billion worth of illegal sports gambling.”
From New York Times
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
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
From Scientific American
But not everyone completes it, she said: "Oftentimes, we have to still do some guesstimating."
From Salon
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