as in speculation
the act or process of finding an answer by guessing
This book takes the guesswork out of buying a home. Calculating the drug's long-term effects is pure guesswork.
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Recent Examples of guesswork
Anyone who wants to take the guesswork out of betting on the NBA can place a $5 bet.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Don’t worry—we’ve created warm-up and cooldown routines to take out any guesswork!
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Volatility drives up costs, turns strategic planning into guesswork and delays investment.
—María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Don’t worry—we’ve created warm-up and cooldown routines to take out any guesswork!
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Volatility drives up costs, turns strategic planning into guesswork and delays investment.
—María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
Noun
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Yes, after much speculation, Eddie moves back to Los Angeles to continue working with the 118.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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For the blockchain space, the campaign provides a use case for fan-facing experiences that don’t center on financial speculation.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Proximity — Use cases like fraud detection, robotics and personalized content demand low-latency inference, requiring compute to move closer to users and devices.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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This work focuses greatly on advanced techniques such as model compression, quantization, and distributed inference along with federated learning.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Based on this assumption, one mathematician even built an entire edifice of conjectures about exotic spheres and other shapes.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
5 May 2025
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Pope Francis, 88, died on Easter Monday, April 21, after a weeks-long illness, sparking a flurry of activity and conjecture as one of the world's oldest and most far-reaching institutions prepares to choose a new leader.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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My session stretched almost two hours, including a half-hour theory overview on the dunes.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
12 May 2025
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One theory suggests Mars lost its water to space as solar wind stripped it from the atmosphere — a process supported by ratios of isotopes on the Red Planet, or distinct species of chemical elements, seen today.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
12 May 2025
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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