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That beat the estimate of ¥349.00 billion in a poll of analysts by data provider Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Bale's complete Batsuit from Batman Begins, the first film in the trilogy, is also for sale, with an estimate of between £125,000 and £250,000.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Sony’s quarterly net profit beat the analyst estimate of 349.00 billion yen in a poll by Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Adjusted earnings per share was $2.09, against a FactSet estimate of $1.65.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
When Mary Debenham entered the dining car she confirmed Poirot’s previous estimate of her.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Now mortgage-free, she estimates it could be worth between £600,000 and £700,000.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Molson Coors reported third-quarter revenue fell 1.6% to $2.93 billion, missing analyst estimates of $2.94 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“You can no longer have confidence in those earnings estimates — the companies probably don’t have visibility themselves right now,” O’Rourke said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Even market analyst Dan Ives, known for his bullish outlook on tech growth, now estimates that 10 percent of the 800 to 1,000 new data centers planned in the United States "will not happen."
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
I based my crop yield estimates on the potato industry back on Earth.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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The S&P 500 lost an estimated $2.9 trillion in market capitalization, the largest one-day loss of market value on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
An estimated 400 unopened letters were handed in to a Northern Ireland assembly member's office after being found "dumped" outside Londonderry, on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The carnage was worse in chip stocks and other beneficiaries of the AI spending spree, which already has been estimated at about $1 trillion a year.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The Saudi PIF spent an estimated $5 billion to $6 billion on LIV Golf in less than five years of operations before ceasing financing in April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
A cheerful Start! message and an estimated arrival time hover in the center of my vision, waiting for me to follow the map.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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The business opportunity surrounding humanoids is expected to be immense, with some experts estimating a multitrillion-dollar market by 2050.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
And Islam has long been considered one of the fastest-growing religions in the country, with Pew Research estimating that by 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nation’s second-largest religious group after Christians.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
This suggests that a relatively simple blood test could eventually provide doctors with additional information when estimating an individual's likelihood of developing cognitive difficulties.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Anthropic arrived at its figure by estimating the economic value globally in 2025 performed by “knowledge workers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It’s a simple way of estimating how many friends and acquaintances you have.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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