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
The best kinds of travel clothes are the ones that take the guesswork out of dressing, which the 2-in-1 Maxi Dress delivers in flying colors.
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Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
28 June 2026
Summer’s less is more motto rings especially true when a 90-degree afternoon is forecasted; a mini tank or spaghetti-strap midi will be a reliable choice to take the guesswork out of getting dressed.
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Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
25 June 2026
Take all the guesswork out of cooking salmon with this simple sheet pan supper.
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Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
No more guesswork or sifting for clues.
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Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
24 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for guesswork
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
28 June 2026
Summer’s less is more motto rings especially true when a 90-degree afternoon is forecasted; a mini tank or spaghetti-strap midi will be a reliable choice to take the guesswork out of getting dressed.
—
Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
25 June 2026
Take all the guesswork out of cooking salmon with this simple sheet pan supper.
—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
No more guesswork or sifting for clues.
—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
24 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for guesswork
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesswork
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This is bound to reignite ongoing speculation about Chanel expanding into menswear, which reached new heights when the house tapped Pedro Pascal as ambassador in April under Blazy.
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Despite the speculation, very few details have emerged, and almost no leaks have surfaced.
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Extropic claims that its system will be up to 10,000 times more energy-efficient than today’s GPUs while also enabling 1,000 times faster inference.
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Funded by the National Science Foundation, our multidisciplinary team blended our expertise in causal inference, sustainability and cybersecurity, to work on the tangled question of what people do with their consumer electronics when they’re done using them.
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By these arguments, an AI proof of a mathematical conjecture that has stubbornly resisted human efforts would be useful only if comprehensible to humans.
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After weeks of such conjecture, multiple outlets as well as South Florida Sun Sentinel sources now say that Celtics’ forward Jaylen Brown is on the table in trade talks, with the notion of adding more than draft capital as a Milwaukee Bucks focus.
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Germ theory also emerged in the late 1800s, in which scientists discovered that germs caused disease.
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The two budding geniuses would sit in Charles’ apartment for hours, talking music theory and analyzing records, though Jones’s curiosity occasionally exhausted Charles.
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“Guesswork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guesswork. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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