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
In fact, guesswork is core to both the plot of Questions 27 & 28 and the experience of reading it.
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Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
What the data did for Landeskog was take the guesswork out of his training program.
—ABC News, 26 May 2026
Taking all of the guesswork out of getting ready for the day, this sleeveless to-the-knee dress has racked up over 1,700 reviews from shoppers who swear by its relaxed fit and versatility.
—Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 25 May 2026
Convenient compartments ensure there's no guesswork when building a meat-and-cheese board.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
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Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
What the data did for Landeskog was take the guesswork out of his training program.
—ABC News, 26 May 2026
Taking all of the guesswork out of getting ready for the day, this sleeveless to-the-knee dress has racked up over 1,700 reviews from shoppers who swear by its relaxed fit and versatility.
—Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 25 May 2026
Convenient compartments ensure there's no guesswork when building a meat-and-cheese board.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for guesswork
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
Noun
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So unbound by realism, speculation became my portal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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All of this comes after speculation about what prenup Swift and her soon-to-be-husband, Travis Kelce, could sign has started swirling.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Cosmos 3 is available in multiple versions, including Cosmos 3 Super for high-accuracy robotics and autonomous vehicle applications and Cosmos 3 Nano for faster inference.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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An engineer evaluates two architectures and sees the cost-per-inference difference in their AI chat session, during the development cycle, not weeks later.—
Udam Dewaraja,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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For now, however, that’s all conjecture.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2026
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Finding a single counterexample can be powerful and destroy an entire conjecture, but the lack of finding a counterexample doesn’t prove that the conjecture must be right.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Even a middle school student would perceive a stark difference between someone who voices a bogus theory and someone who acts on it.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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In theory, that should be a straightforward fix.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2026
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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