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
According to our Homestead Experience Coordinator, these bespoke technologies were programmed just for us, maximizing the benefits of our changing climate and our reshaped biomes, all while taking the messy human guesswork out of relocation and resettlement.
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Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
This means a lot of guesswork as to which solar storms will produce an aurora.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Smart systems and automations can take the guesswork out of when to flip switches.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
No tinkering or guesswork required.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
This means a lot of guesswork as to which solar storms will produce an aurora.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
Smart systems and automations can take the guesswork out of when to flip switches.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
No tinkering or guesswork required.
—Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for guesswork
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
Noun
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The possibility that Keegan Bradley will not return in 2027 has opened the door to speculation, and the debate over a new captain has already begun.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Unlike earlier tech booms, this surge is not about speculation and hype, but structural reinvention.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Oracle began delivering Nvidia hardware to that site in June, and OpenAI has already begun training (building new models) and inference (running ChatGPT) using the data center.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Dynamo is an open-source inference framework for planning and routing AI workloads in the data center, essentially an data center workload orchestrator.—
Jim McGregor,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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People have seen slivers in movies like Paid in Full and read conjecture online, but beneath the surface is an entire world that hasn’t been seen before.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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If the additivity conjecture is to be believed, then the original knot’s unknotting number should be 5, and this new knot’s should be 4.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni shut down that theory with a clear response on Monday.—
Matt Audilet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Davis is a registered nurse, earned a master’s degree in operational excellence and process improvement from Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business, and earned a doctorate in adult learning theory from the University of Pennsylvania.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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