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as in to assess
to make an approximate or tentative judgment regarding
experts estimated the value of the painting at a million dollars
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2
as in to calculate
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement
we estimated the snowfall to be about a foot
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as in estimation
the act of placing a value on the nature, character, or quality of something
what we owe our war veterans is beyond estimate
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as in assessment
an opinion on the nature, character, or quality of something
the estimate of many art specialists that the painting is a fake
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Recent Examples of estimate
Michel Martin, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Players also see salaries capped at around $250,000 a year and their share of revenue estimated at about 10%, whereas players in the NBA and other major pro leagues get about 50% of revenue.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
The subsidies were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic and are set to expire at year’s end, spiking premiums as much as double, in some estimates.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that as many as four million people risk becoming uninsured if the credits are not renewed.
—Michel Martin, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Players also see salaries capped at around $250,000 a year and their share of revenue estimated at about 10%, whereas players in the NBA and other major pro leagues get about 50% of revenue.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
By Fathom’s estimate, a 100-year flood could cause the nearby Columbia River to spill over a levee that protects Richland, then loosely follow the creek to the hospitals.
—CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
The subsidies were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic and are set to expire at year’s end, spiking premiums as much as double, in some estimates.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for estimate
Verb
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Stock futures pointed to a downbeat open on Wednesday as traders assessed the ramifications of a government shutdown, with Wall Street perhaps looking to other assets for safety — including bitcoin.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Relying heavily on metaphor and imagery to communicate the season's true villain, the finale doesn't stick the landing (more like gets stuck in it), but when assessed comprehensively, the result is no less devastating.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The cost-of-living readings for July, August and September are used to calculate the annual Social Security COLA.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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As a general rule of thumb, always calculate and compare both the cash price and the points redemption value before booking.—
Meghan Hunter,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Shane Hubbard, a UW-Madison research scientist specializing in damage and loss estimation from disasters, said that misunderstandings of what type of insurance offers the most protection result in homeowners being left with hefty bills and little government assistance.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Much of this risk to hospitals is not captured by flood maps issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which have served as the nation’s de facto tool for flood estimation for half a century, despite being incomplete and sometimes decades out of date.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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According to figures from a housing assessment released this April, the median house value in Fayetteville has grown 275% in the last two decades, and the median gross rent has increased 78%.—
Juan Cordoba,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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Yet once someone had suggested the inherent instability in a relationship between writers, there seemed to be no way to defuse the assessment.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Records of boxwood plantings date back to the 1700s, and Ohio nurseries' boxwood inventory is valued at over $200 million, the blog reports, citing the Ohio Department of Agriculture.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk.—
Peter Vanham,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Nearly all 45,653 fans inside Citizens Bank Park figured Bryson Stott would bunt.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Stephen Ross may not be all that patient to let McDaniel figure things out on his own.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In their announcement, Syracuse cited a Goldman Sachs appraisal that has the creator economy approaching $500 billion by 2027.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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This involves forcing carriers to issue appraisal provisions, a process which was made mandatory in the Lone Star State as of September 1 under Senate Bill 458, a legislation filed without Governor Greg Abbott’s signature this summer.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Anyone with good donor support and a staff with great portal evaluation abilities can compete.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The success criteria for Mercor’s tasks are written by human experts, but the marking is done by AIs, which Mercor says agreed with human graders 89% of the time, helping to scale the evaluations.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Estimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estimate. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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