wild guess
Example Sentences
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Given your financial profile, and the fact that you are a single man with no children, I’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that you live a modest lifestyle.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
“As far as predicting future rupture events,” he wrote, “I think the estimate would be close to a wild guess as many of the factors cannot be determined.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
And if I can hazard a wild guess, I don’t think the senders really wanted me to have a great day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Do you take a wild guess or ask a person at the gas station and hope the fuel you pick doesn’t damage the engine?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
If they had merely glimpsed the statue through a car window at sixty miles per hour, they could only have made a wild guess at its authenticity.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
