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- noun Plural form of
guess . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
guess .
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Examples
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The trustees' report, after all, is almost entirely based on assumptions -- long-term guesses about what the U.S. economy will be 50 or 75 years from now.
Michele Bachmann's fuzzy tax math at CPAC Glenn Kessler 2011
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One time the teacher asked us to try and figure out a similar question and took intuitive guesses from the rest of the class, most of which were to the effect that there's no way that there could be overlapping birthdays in a class of 28 kids.
Evolution Sunday; At the Movies KaneCitizen 2006
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And one book which got no guesses is fairly popular; maybe I picked the line badly? mood: sore
November 14th, 2006 fox1013 2006
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PS -I refuse to confirm or deny any of the name guesses made on my last post, but I will say this: you will know.
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PS -I refuse to confirm or deny any of the name guesses made on my last post, but I will say this: you will know.
Archive 2008-05-11 2008
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One time the teacher asked us to try and figure out a similar question and took intuitive guesses from the rest of the class, most of which were to the effect that there's no way that there could be overlapping birthdays in a class of 28 kids.
Archive 2006-02-01 KaneCitizen 2006
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Scientists probably think the best place to learn about guesses is in a lab.
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The reason, he guesses, is because there's safety in numbers by spawning together.
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I just took my guesses from the forms that I had worked out using path integrals for nonrelativistic matter, but relativistic light.
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He explains that we can make use of very short-term guesses or predictions, but long-term forecasts are nothing more than pure guesswork.
GuruFocus Updates - 2010
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