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- noun Plural form of
guestimate .
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Examples
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All we have are "guestimates": not robust calculations from the first principles, as many people believe, but model-based estimates.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Such outside "guestimates" would suggest that annual costs might range from £15 million to £25 million—a little short of the estimate made by the noble Lord, Lord Pearson.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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As usual, they only score 6 years of benefits, and the long term costs are at best guestimates … I can remember when the Democrats swore that medicare would top out in 1992 at $12 billion, now it is 14% of the budget.
Matthew Yglesias » CBO: Health Reform Will Reduce the Deficit, Cover Tens of Millions of Americans 2010
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It's all just a guestimate based on other guestimates.
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Given its status as an illegal organization, there are only rough guestimates how many Egyptians would identify themselves as either members or support of the Brotherhood until its cells emerge from their secret hiding places.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's "Hood" Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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The only way the guestimates are made is to compare the APPARENT size of the crowd with previous guestimates, that themselves used the same flawed methodology.
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Given its status as an illegal organization, there are only rough guestimates how many Egyptians would identify themselves as either members or support of the Brotherhood until its cells emerge from their secret hiding places.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's "Hood" Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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Hopefully they won't, so according to Shell's guestimates, energy demand is likely to rise by about 64% in the developing world, and by 3% in the already industrialised world.
A research revolution to save the planet | Jonathan Glennie 2011
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Given its status as an illegal organization, there are only rough guestimates how many Egyptians would identify themselves as either members or support of the Brotherhood until its cells emerge from their secret hiding places.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Muslim Brotherhood's "Hood" Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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Finally, the official voting totals in the states others are complaining about haven't been released, but even the guestimates don't change the fact that HRC even without Michigan and Florida, is in this one.
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