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make an educated guess

verb as in extrapolate

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My boyfriend, who had accompanied me on this journey, pulled up some quick stats on his phone so we could try to make an educated guess.

Countries also don’t conduct RCTs of the annual flu shots because the influenza virus shifts too fast; health officials make an educated guess as to what strain to use and hope for the best, and then conduct retrospective effectiveness studies to assess how well the vaccines worked.

Instead, they make an educated guess evaluating the average number of vehicles they’d need on a specific afternoon, which is based on past trends and calendar fluctuations.

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But we can already make an educated guess about the titles we’ll hear that day, since your Projectionist has spent the last few months weighing valuable factors like voter buzz, box office battles, laurels from critics groups, below-the-line Oscar shortlists, and influential citations like the Gothams and the American Film Institute Awards.

But we can already make an educated guess about the titles we’ll hear that day, since your Projectionist has spent the last few months weighing valuable factors like voter buzz, box office battles, laurels from critics groups, below-the-line Oscar shortlists, and influential citations like the Gothams and the American Film Institute Awards.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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