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guesstimate

[ges-tuh-meyt, ges-tuh-mit, -meyt] / ˈgɛs təˌmeɪt, ˈgɛs tə mɪt, -ˌmeɪt /
























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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