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past tense of guess

guessed

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adjective

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Recent Examples of guessed
Adjective
Nelson may have guessed correctly on the president digging his heels into tariffs seven years on from his first term, but the taxes may not be around for much longer. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025 Some of you might have guessed. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025 The alternative would have been shutting down pre-orders after that guessed number and marking the devices out of stock. Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025 Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery? Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025 Who would have guessed a home game in two weeks against UCLA would be the Hoosiers’ toughest test in the second half of their season? Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 Game predictions All three of our predictors guessed last week that the Panthers would lose to the Miami Dolphins. Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025 There was a camp nearby and Bob guessed that its occupants were trout fishermen. Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025 The internet being the internet, however, some fans had correctly guessed this twist was coming after sharing Harcourt’s observation about the population’s whiteness — matched with the fact that on the main Earth, Auggie was a virulent white supremacist known as the White Dragon. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guessed
Verb
  • Khaled assumed he was being moved to yet another prison, until he was taken to a place called Ward A.
    Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This is why, for most of the 20th century — until the 1980s — people assumed that the hot Big Bang implied a singularity at the beginning.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Micheli estimated about 70 bills had some form of this language, about 3% of the almost 2,400 bills introduced.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak estimated that the shift could translate to between $2 billion and $4 billion of annual recurring savings for the company by 2027.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As gutting as that was, the team received uplifting news on each player Monday indicating that neither injury was as serious as initially thought.
    Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Five years on, and somehow, the American economy has not only avoided a contraction but has managed to grow—an outcome many investors thought impossible.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The judges also clarified that their ruling did not prevent the government from using other immigration or national security statutes to remove suspected terrorists.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So, my vocal cords, they’re supposed to look parallel.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Higginbotham figured one way to unpack his journey would be to talk about it even more.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Saudi heritage and national pride figured across many collections, with geometric rooflines a graphic detail on the loose men’s alterna-suiting from Noble & Fresh, and odes to various regions spelled out in spirals of Arabic characters on Hindamme’s second-skin dresses.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Schuster said the Fujian is more likely a stepping stone, and China’s next carrier, the Type 004, on which early construction is believed to have begun, will incorporate lessons learned from it.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • De Silva, police noted, was an innocent bystander who was not involved in the quarrel and was not believed to have been the target.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 8 Aug. 2025

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