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
Using a thermometer removes the guesswork and ensures food is both safe and properly cooked.
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Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
Today, computer simulation and reams of telemetry data speed up designs and eliminate most of the guesswork.
—Thomas Black, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
Today, computer simulation and reams of telemetry data speed up designs and eliminate most of the guesswork.
—Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
This is a small habit that takes five seconds and saves real guesswork later in the week.
—Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 19 Apr. 2026
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Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
Today, computer simulation and reams of telemetry data speed up designs and eliminate most of the guesswork.
—Thomas Black, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
Today, computer simulation and reams of telemetry data speed up designs and eliminate most of the guesswork.
—Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
This is a small habit that takes five seconds and saves real guesswork later in the week.
—Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 19 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
Noun
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And supporters are left to fill the silence with speculation, chants and, now, airborne protest banners.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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A lot of reality programming feels like a delivery system for viewer speculation and judgment, often to tremendous entertainment value.—
Todd Gilchrist,
IndieWire,
7 May 2026
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Running the model for users—inference—is incredibly compute-intensive because bigger models need more computing power to serve.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
1 May 2026
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Duality provides software that uses FHE, including an LLM inference framework.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 2026
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So, how do Peñarrubia and Nadler know this isn't just some clever mathematical conjecture?—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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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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The adult world is studied and emulated in a manner that suggests praxis but no theory.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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There is one theory that people may outlive their physical bodies but there may be a way to upload their consciousness into a digital realm where human existence could go on indefinitely.—
John Ramos,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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