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as in to speculate (about)
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Recent Examples of second-guess
Looking back on it, do you ever second-guess yourself?
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Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
This may cause one partner to become the emotional fixer and the other to feel watched, second-guessed or subtly managed.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
No more second-guessing, the app tracks session history, ensuring a stress-free transition for working moms.
—Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025
The future of our country’s health care can no longer be about second-guessing, finger-pointing or armchair prognostications.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
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Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
This may cause one partner to become the emotional fixer and the other to feel watched, second-guessed or subtly managed.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
No more second-guessing, the app tracks session history, ensuring a stress-free transition for working moms.
—Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025
The future of our country’s health care can no longer be about second-guessing, finger-pointing or armchair prognostications.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for second-guess
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This is an American story made by an international cohort — Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain is an executive producer under his Fabula production banner — and the film is so much more than just an exploration of this anomalous oddball story and character who managed to outsmart the media.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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If people are constantly outsmarting the system, what does that say about the system itself?—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The research consortium has data from tissue samples that represents a resource the field has never had—and that is yet to be fully analyzed.—
Atul Gawande,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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To determine rankings, the study analyzed 100 cities for the amount of pollen, the number of specialists in the area and the amount of medicine used.—
Ashley Fredde,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Apr. 2025
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That model doesn't include reasoning capabilities, though.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2025
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Officials reasoned that the property’s existing zoning, neighborhood commercial — allowing restaurants, banks, barber shops and similar businesses — better served the community.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2025
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The old lad won the 2025 Masters in the most patent way possible, by outwitting an army of demons and finally meeting his place in history.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Virgil van Dijk got outwitted by the combative Rodrigo Muniz for Fulham’s third.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Musk has never denied his hard-charging style and believes that his work building electric cars and rockets is crucial for the health of the planet and the continuation of the human species, and that his DOGE work responds to threats of U.S. bankruptcy.—
Jonathan Landay,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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And if White Houses have believed this too, that the people that are being covered do not choose who covers them.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Guna have long thwarted real-estate developers and foreign investors eyeing both the shore and the uninhabited islands, which are a postcard vision of paradise.—
Mark Johanson,
AFAR Media,
22 Apr. 2025
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And then came the Tampa Bay Lightning, who thwarted everything that made the Panthers so successful.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2025
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This Wedding Banquet concludes with a scene of Angela, Lee, Min, and Chris jointly raising two children, the kid Angela had after a drunken fling with Chris and the one Lee had through the IVF that Min funded.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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The events will conclude with the beginning of the Novemdiales, a symbolic and procedural period of nine days of prayer, mourning and remembrance.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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What frustrates you most about navigating love in the digital age?—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
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Piastri and his camp, led by steely former F1 racer Mark Webber, were frustrated with Alpine’s slow progress towards his F1 graduation.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Second-guess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second-guess. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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