guesses 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of guess

guesses

2 of 2

noun

plural of guess
as in theories
an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence if you don't know the answer for sure, just make a guess

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Recent Examples of guesses
Verb
Logan Wright, the author of Broken China, guesses that growth is now running at no more than 1% — and may even be zero. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026 The system consists of a predictive algorithm that guesses how a robot is broken, along with robotic manipulators that actually take the broken robot apart. — Kohava Mendelsohn, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026 Do not retreat into hints and hope someone guesses correctly. — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026 What counts the most will be the moves of the Big Player, guesses about those moves, and guesses about those guesses. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 In addition to being a fun interactive guessing game, the company said the cookie lover who guesses the flavor correctly will win a $25,000 grand prize. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 31 July 2026 When a student misses twice, guesses rapidly, or reveals a misconception, StarSpark can interrupt the assignment, teach the relevant concept, provide additional practice, and then return the student to the original question. — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 When a player guesses a word, the squares change color to provide feedback. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 This adds another layer of protection if someone steals or guesses your password. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
Below are all of our guesses on what’s still on the showgirl’s mind in between the main act and the encore. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026 It should also be based on the property’s actual operating history, not optimistic guesses. — David Crown, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Today’s puzzle took our testers an average of 4 guesses out of 6, or moderately easy. — New York Times Games, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Hilton didn’t share the pooch’s name at the time, prompting fans to offer up their guesses in the comments of her Instagram and TikTok posts. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 That’s a pretty specific number; the intelligence community almost never issues such precise figures, instead offering ranges of plausible guesses. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026 What counts the most will be the moves of the Big Player, guesses about those moves, and guesses about those guesses. — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 That said, plenty of analysts and advocacy groups are already making educated guesses. — Jason St. Angelo, USA Today, 29 July 2026 These are our best guesses as to where life might exist elsewhere in the universe. — Elijah Tan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesses
Verb
  • That answer assumes the problem sits somewhere downstream of the room.
    — Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The bank assumes every 1 million barrels per day of supply lost adds about $4 to the futures price, Kaneva said.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The free cash flow generated over the past year alone is enough to repurchase 8% to 10% of shares outstanding, BofA estimates.
    — Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Georgia Power estimates this system will deliver 900 million dollars in net savings for ordinary customers over the working life of the reactors.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Another notices a client’s life changing earlier and shows up before the client thinks to reach out.
    — Lital Marom, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The team thinks that in galaxies with less powerful jets, black hole winds also contribute to shock generation.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • And so, at first light, when firefighters had won the day and the smoke cleared to reveal the ostrich flock still standing, the sight didn’t lead to any reconsideration of the night’s theories of clandestine slaughter.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The grand jury didn't find any evidence suggesting a crime occurred, or that Wells' death was motivated by race, and also took direct aim at the theories circulating on social media about the people on the boats.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Balasubramanian suspects that even this kind of radical model doesn’t go far enough.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
  • British Columbia suspects that OpenAI actually wanted to avoid drawing a hard line that would require OpenAI to report more violent users to the police and expose the public to more of the real-world threats that chatbots could pose.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • By the end of the 6-11 plummet, the Chiefs were 1-9 in one-score games — the kind of shift in dynamics that figures to leave followers with a certain ambient dread until proven otherwise.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
  • This is one race that figures to go down to the last day, with the deciding factor possibly being whether the Astros win the AL West.
    — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • That should worry anyone who believes that enforcement ought to focus on actual threats to public safety.
    — Don Bacon, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The organization believes some of these conversations and disagreements among board members are drawing time and attention away from students, many of whom are Hispanic and come from Spanish-speaking backgrounds.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026
  • As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026

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