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The researchers estimate that the candidate world is a gas giant roughly the size of Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
Evidence about the true level of autism relies on surveys that have not been done for nine years, so the review team have had to estimate what has happened since.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
With a market cap of $2.63 billion, Boise trades at a forward price-to-sales ratio of 0.4, based on the consensus 12-month revenue estimate among analysts polled by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
That was above the estimate of ¥61.3 billion in a poll of analysts by data provider Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
We had no scales, and he had to estimate, using a pound box of gichy-michy as standard.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Oracle, the stock with the smallest increase in forward estimates, is down the most, while Nvidia, with the largest increase, is up, with Broadcom in the middle.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
The U.S. bank cuts its Terumo revenue forecast for the fiscal year starting in April 2027 but raises operating profit estimates for the period onward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Newport Beach expected intense surf Friday, but the high tide turned out to be much worse than the estimates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Logan estimates about 40 percent of US soybeans are exported, with China traditionally a key buyer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The connection is rarely made that rounding off and making reasonable estimates have something to do with real life.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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California Gig Workers Union spokesman Tim Sandoval said the organization will eventually represent all of the estimated 300,000 to 350,000 ride-share drivers in the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
She had estimated that, based on her current earnings trajectory, she would repay her loan in 11 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The team also estimated how quickly the brown dwarf is losing material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
But it’s more than just Greenland sharks at risk, with an estimated 79 million sharks dying in fisheries in 2019.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Mariya Smirnova, who flew 935 harassment missions during the war, estimated that every one of the 46th’s pilots made at least eight hundred combat flights.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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That finding challenges the usual way scientists interpret thermal stress and provides a new approach for estimating total heat exposure across coastal ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
They claimed that data limitations in the national health expenditure accounts prevented them from estimating the cost of new vision and hearing benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
That commentary suggests the risk to September jobs could be higher than what analysts are estimating.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Even there, the population is small, with the most recent survey estimating just 140 mature individuals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
As we walked, we concentrated on listening to our breathing, calculating the distance to the next landmark, and estimating the remaining time.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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