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
Fifty-eight years after its release, its track record reads less like guesswork and more like a blueprint.
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Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
Take the guesswork out of your packing routine before your next vacation with this digital luggage scale.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Still, this involves a bit of guesswork.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
Any predictions about the impact of AI on music, as with any industry, remain educated guesswork.
—Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2026
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Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
Take the guesswork out of your packing routine before your next vacation with this digital luggage scale.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Still, this involves a bit of guesswork.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
Any predictions about the impact of AI on music, as with any industry, remain educated guesswork.
—Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
Noun
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The story was based on an inconclusive, preliminary finding by ballistics experts and led to speculation about Robinson's possible exoneration.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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From the moment Nancy Guthrie disappeared, people started speculating about what might have happened, and some of that speculation centered on Savanah’s sister Annie and her husband.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But a close reading of the filing encouraged certain inferences.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Intel's newest Xeon 6 CPUs will now run AI training and inference workloads, potentially giving the chipmaker a stronger position in an AI market that's so far been dominated by Nvidia.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Like an enzyme that works as a catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction, collaboration ignites new ideas for conjectures.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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In some cases, algorithms formulate a conjecture, prove it, and verify the proof with minimal human intervention.—
Konstantin Kakaes,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In theory, this could be a standard beauty modification, like Ingres tossing a few extra vertebrae into a naked back.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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But the general idea is that there is a lot of stuff in the universe that is not the familiar matter that we are made of, and there are theories in which this stuff is not entirely benign.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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