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
Most in the 30,778 crowd would have struggled to make the call without some degree of guesswork.
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Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
By freezing and visualizing what happens in the developer, the team turned a long-unsolved, guesswork-heavy process into one that can be seen, understood, and controlled.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
In the long term, Dahl hopes the guesswork will be removed from the scenario entirely.
—Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
The universal shade takes the guesswork out of shade matching.
—Deanna Pai, Allure, 23 Oct. 2025
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Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
By freezing and visualizing what happens in the developer, the team turned a long-unsolved, guesswork-heavy process into one that can be seen, understood, and controlled.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
In the long term, Dahl hopes the guesswork will be removed from the scenario entirely.
—Sophie Benson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
The universal shade takes the guesswork out of shade matching.
—Deanna Pai, Allure, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
Noun
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Like most fiction, it’s made up of experiences, imagination, ideas, memories, emotions, speculation, knowledge and research.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Rumors of their split began swirling in late June, and speculation grew when Bloom arrived in Venice for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánches Bezos' wedding without Perry.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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At Microsoft, the work was no longer about small experiments with no real-world inference.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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There have been anti-China rallies in downtown Seoul in recent months, where protesters chanted racist slurs and made unsubstantiated claims of Chinese inference in South Korean politics.—
Se Eun Gong,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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The old world was one of conjecture, miracles and guesswork.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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Amenabar seems to root his screenplay on conjectures about the writer’s sexuality, which many scholars consider latterday projection.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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The special explores theories about why the thieves targeted specific displays, who orchestrated this brazen operation and which fatal flaws in their plan ultimately led to their capture.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The showgirl theory also holds in that fashion diapers seem to have taken off almost only among celebrities.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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