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
Doing the math on Amazon’s delivery emissions entails a lot of guesswork.
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Molly Taft, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024
Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics helps take the guesswork out of PPC by using machine learning to forecast what might happen next, based on what has happened before.
—David Ispiryan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
This device takes the guesswork out of curling by simply winding a section of your hair in its heated ceramic chamber for a few seconds, revealing a perfectly polished curl once you're finished.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 9 Oct. 2024
This convenient soil moisture meter takes the guesswork out of it by using its tfour modes to determine how much light, water, and nutrients are required.
—Alicia Geigel, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
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Molly Taft, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024
Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics helps take the guesswork out of PPC by using machine learning to forecast what might happen next, based on what has happened before.
—David Ispiryan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
This device takes the guesswork out of curling by simply winding a section of your hair in its heated ceramic chamber for a few seconds, revealing a perfectly polished curl once you're finished.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 9 Oct. 2024
This convenient soil moisture meter takes the guesswork out of it by using its tfour modes to determine how much light, water, and nutrients are required.
—Alicia Geigel, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
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News on the luxury grapevine lifted shares of Burberry and EssilorLuxottica yesterday amid speculation that two major industry deals are underway.Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
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The news of Beau’s death, along with, now, the heartbreaking news of Jackie’s arrest in connection with his death has overwhelmed us with grief and speculation and confusion.Vicki Gerdes / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2024
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The next decade will be about new infrastructure solutions that can provide scale, performance, resilience and security for the models and the inference endpoints at the heart of enterprise AI applications.Thomas Cornely, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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These models use a small fraction of their total parameters for inference.Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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However, careful scientific examination has proved both those conjectures wrong.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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What happened after that is conjecture mixed with logic and the findings of a United States Department of Justice investigation.Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Boulanger, Jones would often later say, drilled into him an appreciation for the endless possibilities contained within the confines of music theory.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The theory was popularized by manifestos left by perpetrators in a number of high-profile neo-Nazi and white supremacist terrorist incidents, including the killing of 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.Patrick Smith, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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