How To Use Guesswork In A Sentence
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The cards were completed laboriously and with a fair amount of guesswork.
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The Pipe team don't fit blinkers to their horses as guesswork.
The Sun
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All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
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We don't deal in rumours or guesswork.
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When the Spaniard's tennis journey will resume remains pure guesswork.
Times, Sunday Times
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But more often we have to depend on guesswork.
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We can effectively only work with reported numbers, as the total number of cases is guesswork.
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Now, new technology looks set to take the guesswork out of wine tasting.
Times, Sunday Times
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With Brand-yourself, much of the tedious technology guesswork/hassle is eliminated, freeing you to focus on the substance of your personal brand.
Judy Shapiro: Judy Consumer Learns About Personal Branding in this Hyper Competitive Workplace World
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They are entirely guesswork, speculative and based on unsound mathematics designed to promote the private healthcare system.
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With few hard numbers to go on, investors have to rely on guesswork and emotion.
DOT.CON
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Details of the deal were not disclosed by the principals or anyone else connected with it - a reason why there was so much guesswork in the press last week.
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So there's a certain amount of guesswork or predicting that goes into it.
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The Clinton campaign had long since ceased polling in unfriendly states, and now had to make do with guesswork.
The Front-Runner’s Fall
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The question of who planted the bomb remains a matter of guesswork.
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This tool aims to take the guesswork out of wine shopping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Concerning the archaic period, Reed admits that he is engaging in ‘cautious guesswork’.
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In practice this is largely going to be a matter of guesswork though so you can't really plan too deeply.
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Pursuing a theme of archaic poetry, Xenophanes is the first to reflect systematically on the distinction between human opinion or guesswork and certain knowledge.
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Their results owe more to informed guesswork than to actual knowledge.
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They are entirely guesswork, speculative and based on unsound mathematics designed to promote the private healthcare system.
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At times, elliptical speech or writing is so concise that listeners and readers must supply missing elements through guesswork or special knowledge, and if they cannot, they fail to understand.
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Their results owe more to informed guesswork than to actual knowledge.
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Writing down what you do removes all the guesswork and accurately tracks your progress.
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In fact, much guesswork was involved.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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But it would be pure guesswork to suggest backing him.
The Sun
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Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
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A rice cooker will take the guesswork out of perfect rice and some models will do your porridge and vegetables, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Discipline yourself to minimize opinion, disregard hearsay and reject guesswork.
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He is a membrane between isolation and society, this man who crouches beneath his umbrella, navigating by guesswork in a pitiless storm that, having engulfed houses, streets and gutters, has deprived him of his bearings.
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Discipline yourself to minimize opinion,(Sentencedict) disregard hearsay and reject guesswork.
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Indeed planning anything more than 18 months ahead is pure guesswork.
TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
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He was making the point that over the long term all profit forecasts are pretty much guesswork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also left to guesswork is the complicity of the prison authorities in this beastly society.
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Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
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This takes all the guesswork out of club selection.
Winning Golf for Women
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But how many of them are left in the rest of Africa is guesswork, and as a result, their decline may be easily overlooked.
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Well, that was just guesswork, so I decided to make myself really depressed and run a spreadsheet on it.
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While there is a fair bit of guesswork and assumption involved, parties reckon they can narrow down who voted for them and who didn't.
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The reality is utterly different, with guesswork, crude tools and misleading instrument panels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The question of who planted the bomb remains a matter of guesswork.
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All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
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Until the late sixth century, informed guesswork must make do for history.
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The figures, such as they are, involve guesswork.
Times, Sunday Times
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We don't, but we cannot go to war on guesswork, hypothesis and speculation.
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The first scene is ‘imagination, guesswork, contrivance’; the second is an accurate excerpt from her writing.
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Longterm forecasts were largely a matter of guesswork.
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Abrams and Tom Cruise getting together to produce the fourth Mission: Impossible story, but this announcement in the more official and traditional sources contains more guesswork, rumour and negativity on the story than your average "Internet" story, and it's the "Internet" stories that are always fired at by Hollywood types for wild rumour-mongering.
Filmstalker: Hollywood, the "internet" isn't all bad
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You have some general idea of where the problems might occur, but there's a lot of guesswork involved.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exactly why the bottle was buried remains open to conjecture, but the ethnohistorical parallels make the guesswork rather minimal.
An American Witch Bottle
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Without bold guesswork, we will never have great discovery.
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The strange game of guesswork with the press was designed to achieve that end, and that being so named was ‘one presumable cause for his suicide.’
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Their results owe more to informed guesswork than to actual knowledge.
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But this is only guesswork and it is hoped that an expert from one of the universities might be enlisted to help solve the problem.
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The reality is utterly different, with guesswork, crude tools and misleading instrument panels.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may be that a certain amount of guesswork was involved.
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If we heeded all the hype, accidents would be eliminated, yet this involves too much speculation and guesswork.
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We know she has a sense of humour, we know she likes animals, but other than that, regardless of how much research you do, it's really all guesswork.
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Ms Rhode said: ‘It is all guesswork because Lowry was a disseminator, he liked to play games with people and tell them what they wanted to hear.’
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Yet the framing of hypothesis is no mere random guesswork; it is left not to the imagination alone, but to the _scientific imagination_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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They are not expensive and will take the guesswork out of so many situations in the kitchen, such as roasting meat, poaching fish or making caramel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their results owe more to informed guesswork than to actual knowledge.
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Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
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Their price estimates are based on pure guesswork.
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As a result, he said, intelligence was mainly ‘inferential’ - that means guesswork.
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However, I'll add a disclaimer to say that everything here is just conjecture and guesswork, if you know otherwise then let me know.
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In the meantime, a certain amount of guesswork appears inevitable.
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For the part he had played, the details of which were practically all rumor and guesswork, quickly leaked out, and in consequence he became a much-execrated and well-hated man.
Chapter VII
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But the nature of research is such that the results cannot be anticipated, so predicting what the next major advancements will be is really informed guesswork.
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It's all guesswork this week, though, because we don't know who is able to dance like an angel skipping across the clouds, and who can only lurch around like a wonky 1930s robot.
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Their results owe more to informed guesswork than to actual knowledge.
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It's ninety percent uneducated guesswork and ten percent misguided sincerity.
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The precise number held in Soviet prisons during that period has become a matter of guesswork.
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It's all guesswork this week, though, because we don't know who is able to dance like an angel skipping across the clouds, and who can only lurch around like a wonky 1930s robot.
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With little official information to oppose the flood of speculation and bad reporting, guesswork and gossip flourished unchecked.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their conclusions were largely founded on guesswork.
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The projected sales figures are pure guesswork on our part.
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Plus, all drawings are full-size, so there is no guesswork involved.
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With few hard numbers to go on, investors have to rely on guesswork and emotion.
DOT.CON
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I am a vet and I am using science to take the guesswork out of training.
The Sun
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Make daft predictions that are as much guesswork as logic... so here goes.
The Sun
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It's approaching the top of the hour and the polls will be closing in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. None of the news organizations did what we call the exit polling in Washington, D.C. As a result, we're not going to be able to project a winner based on anything other than guesswork right now.
CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2008
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It was pure guesswork on our part.
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There's a huge amount of educated guesswork involved in these chronologies.
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Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, by permission of the Proprietor_] [Transcriber's note: names of painter and engraver are only guesswork.] [Illustration: AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER] "To call the pearly drops from Pity's eye,
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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To take the guesswork out of timing spray applications, Trece designed a trap with a kairomone - a scent that mimics the adult beetle's favorite food.
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With few hard numbers to go on, investors have to rely on guesswork and emotion.
DOT.CON
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Green has condemned the plans as a cost-cutting strategy rather than a retail strategy, and said that the intended savings on markdowns were essentially guesswork, because weather played a major part in price cuts.
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Was this pilot's decision the result of luck, doctrine, guesswork, culture, logic or predestiny?
The Beginning of the End
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While it is quite possible that the Secured Creditors did in fact receive what they might have received in a liquidation, that conclusion is to a large extent pure speculation — valuation in bankruptcy is always a matter of some guesswork, but in most cases the parties fighting over valuation get the opportunity to muster evidence and present their cases to an impartial decisionmaker in the adversarial setting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy
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But rational coherence is only as good as its premisses; and the Presocratics' premisses are based on guesswork more often than observation.
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The reality is utterly different, with guesswork, crude tools and misleading instrument panels.
Times, Sunday Times
