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  • verb Present participle of guesstimate.

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Examples

  • Doesn't seem like they are too concerned at this point, but again, you know, we're kind of guesstimating from the reaction to that little cylinder, gray item there, with tape all around it.

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2006 2006

  • (For those "guesstimating" our ages, we're pushing 70.)

    Latest News 2009

  • (For those "guesstimating" our ages, we're pushing 70.)

    Latest News 2009

  • (For those "guesstimating" our ages, we're pushing 70.)

    Latest News 2009

  • I expect it could amount to much more than 100 Billion dollars in California (... in a ten-year period, which is the new political fashion for tossing around tax revenue guesses: in ten-year 'bundled packages' -- pretending that if there is no way to accurately guesstimate one year ahead, what with the shaky Economy and all, then the accuracy is improved by guesstimating ten years ahead).

    Going green (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • How about a few predictions for 2009 (pure conjecture and guesstimating) as a new administrator takes over:

    Oops Bill Nelson's Hypocrisy Is Showing Again - NASA Watch 2009

  • This video from Dan Zack indicates that people are actually pretty bad at guesstimating the residential density of various areas, primarily because of an over-reliance on building height as a cue:

    Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height 2010

  • Ms. Arnold won't say how much she has put into the place, but Mr. Gray and I later do some back-of-the-envelope guesstimating.

    Housing Bust? What Housing Bust? 2011

  • Ms. Arnold won't say how much she has put into the place, but Mr. Gray and I later do some back-of-the-envelope guesstimating.

    Housing Bust? What Housing Bust? 2011

  • Alan Jones: “Twixtr seems to do a pretty fair job of guesstimating my location with each image I upload from my iPhone.”

    Scripting News for 2/17/2008 « Scripting News Annex 2008

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