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
But there’s really no guesswork required to predict the message this time.
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Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
They will be provided as a numeric value that takes away the guesswork of color matching like with urine test strips.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
Confidence Perhaps most importantly, Frida Mom products help take the guesswork out of what to buy for one of life’s biggest (and often, most stressful) events.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Faster diagnostics are the new front line For decades, treating bacterial infections has involved a lot of educated guesswork.
—André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
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Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
They will be provided as a numeric value that takes away the guesswork of color matching like with urine test strips.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
Confidence Perhaps most importantly, Frida Mom products help take the guesswork out of what to buy for one of life’s biggest (and often, most stressful) events.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Faster diagnostics are the new front line For decades, treating bacterial infections has involved a lot of educated guesswork.
—André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for guesswork
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
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While Singh’s lawyer Jitender Khurana denies any political motive for his client’s paroles, his previous releases coincided with crucial state elections, fueling speculation that his freedom is a reward for the Dera’s electoral support.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Wu’s order comes as speculation continues to swirl around the city that a surge of federal immigration officers is imminent.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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Cisco says the platform is built to support massive AI clusters running training, inference, and real-time agentic workloads while improving efficiency and lowering operating costs.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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Eventually, Menard said, Crusoe envisions having lots of smaller data centers, focused on inference, that will be spread around the country, putting them closer to end users and improving latency.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Despite much conjecture, the rapper, 33, opted not to take the stage alongside the Puerto Rican superstar, but she was spotted dancing and vibing during Bad Bunny's halftime show performance inside his famous casita, which has become a show staple since his Puerto Rico residency last year.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
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To prove the full conjecture, the mathematicians had to get even better bounds on the sizes of the gradient’s pieces.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Feb. 2026
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Manuel’s approach to narrative structure draws on literary and philosophical theory.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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And some have theorized that being a carrier for cystic fibrosis can defend against severe cholera, although the evidence for this theory is more scant.—
Roxanne Khamsi,
The Atlantic,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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