guesstimate
noun
guess·ti·mate
ˈge-stə-mət 
: an estimate usually made without adequate information
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So don’t put your faith in human-year guesstimates.
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Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2023
And my guesstimate of 5 percent will be conservative for some states.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
The production schedule has some elasticity in it, but Dodge's initial guesstimate calls for a mere 2000 examples to be produced.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
—Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
When planting a crop, a Christmas tree farmer has to decide — or guesstimate — what varieties customers will want to buy almost a decade later when that crop is ready to be sold.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2021
Estimates are hard to come by, but one guesstimate is that the underground economy amounted to 11 - 12% of US GDP in 2018.
—Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
Goldman Sachs this week issued a more pessimistic economic forecast than previous predictions, shaving growth projections for this year from 5.7% to 5.6%, and lowering its 2022 guesstimate from 4.4% to 4%.
—Paul Begala, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
This is just a projection, a guesstimate without having a grip on what the Guardians’ 26-man roster will look like.
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
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Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2023
And my guesstimate of 5 percent will be conservative for some states.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
The production schedule has some elasticity in it, but Dodge's initial guesstimate calls for a mere 2000 examples to be produced.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 20 July 2022
One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter.
—Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
When planting a crop, a Christmas tree farmer has to decide — or guesstimate — what varieties customers will want to buy almost a decade later when that crop is ready to be sold.
—Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2021
Estimates are hard to come by, but one guesstimate is that the underground economy amounted to 11 - 12% of US GDP in 2018.
—Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
Goldman Sachs this week issued a more pessimistic economic forecast than previous predictions, shaving growth projections for this year from 5.7% to 5.6%, and lowering its 2022 guesstimate from 4.4% to 4%.
—Paul Begala, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
This is just a projection, a guesstimate without having a grip on what the Guardians’ 26-man roster will look like.
—Joe Noga, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
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Etymology
blend of guess and estimate
First Known Use
1923, in the meaning defined above
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