as in suspected
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as in assumed
to form an opinion from little or no evidence
though she does not speak with an accent, I would still guess that she is a foreigner
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as in estimated
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement
I would guess the road goes for about two miles before you have to take a left
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as in thought
to have as an opinion
I never would have guessed that she was capable of such a terrible thing
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Recent Examples of guessed
Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 11 May 2026
Avoid PINs that can be easily guessed, such as a string of the same consecutive numbers.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Schnitzer guessed the driver might not have seen the little boy.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
The stock market gains that Alphabet is producing are not being matched by other big AI spenders such as Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta Platforms, whose stock price plunged by about 6% in extended trading after disclosing an investment strategy being second guessed by investors.
—ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Neither of them could have guessed at the time how their lives would later intersect.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
Berg guessed that the flagellar motor was a rotor that turned the flagellum like a screw.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
Readers will have guessed, for instance, that Sam is gay long before anyone in the book does.
—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Even that was accelerated; Vitello had guessed the next homestand, which starts April 21, earlier last week.
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2026
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And one of the true accomplishments of the Disney+ series’ creators Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest is that the answer was something no one would have ever guessed.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 11 May 2026
Avoid PINs that can be easily guessed, such as a string of the same consecutive numbers.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Schnitzer guessed the driver might not have seen the little boy.
—Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
The stock market gains that Alphabet is producing are not being matched by other big AI spenders such as Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta Platforms, whose stock price plunged by about 6% in extended trading after disclosing an investment strategy being second guessed by investors.
—ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Neither of them could have guessed at the time how their lives would later intersect.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
Berg guessed that the flagellar motor was a rotor that turned the flagellum like a screw.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
Readers will have guessed, for instance, that Sam is gay long before anyone in the book does.
—Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Even that was accelerated; Vitello had guessed the next homestand, which starts April 21, earlier last week.
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guessed
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During the voyage, according to the DOJ, crew members discovered numerous packages hidden inside the ship’s garbage room that contained suspected narcotics.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
23 May 2026
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The case has become one of the most emblematic examples cited by rights organizations accusing Venezuela’s security apparatus of using arbitrary detention, incommunicado imprisonment and forced disappearances against dissidents and suspected opponents.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
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Because of the church scene, which was strongly suggestive of all the characters going to the afterlife, many viewers assumed that all the passengers on Oceanic 815 had been dead the whole time.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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In an unusual move, the Lake County sheriff’s department assumed New Chicago police jurisdiction Friday in the one-square mile town located west of Lake Station and north of Hobart.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
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The agency also noted that more than 500,000 children were estimated to be living in neighborhoods under gang control in 2024.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
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Over a billion dollars is estimated for security, but the feds will likely help out.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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That is because this Jovian moon is thought to host a global subsurface ocean that possibly harbors some of the essential elements for life under its thick and icy shell, including complex organic chemicals and water.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
22 May 2026
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Police thought the van had been moved.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2026
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The presumed reasoning behind why the film was ignored is multilayered.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
8 Aug. 2025
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On Sunday, May 24, Kyle's wife, Samantha Busch, and their children — son Brexton, 11, and daughter Lennix, 4 — made an emotional appearance at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca-Cola 600, in which Kyle was supposed to compete before his death at age 41 on May 21.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
25 May 2026
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Humans aren't supposed to land on the planet until the 2030s at the very earliest.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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This didn’t become common practice until a few hundred years ago, but at least one Neanderthal apparently figured it out and convinced someone to go along with it.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Distraught by life in the South, Reed figured that the only way to escape his parochial childhood was to write his way out.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
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Adam Alfia, the founder and CEO, believed that feedback in the moment has the advantages already mentioned.—
Shep Hyken,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Pricey dental work Recovered from an early 19th-century burial in the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo hospital in Porto, the prosthetic is believed to have sat in the mouth of a young female adult, though researchers could not confirm.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
24 May 2026
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“Guessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guessed. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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