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  • KAINE: You know, John, I'm not a law enforcement guy and I'm not here to secondguess the law enforcement folks.

    CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007 2007

  • WARNER: The president, I think quite properly, did not try and secondguess his military commanders.

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2004 2004

  • I don't think that this is the time, though, to secondguess the decisions on the ground.

    Press Briefing By George Stephanopoulos ITY National Archives 1993

  • As I was working at one remove, I had to secondguess her moods and act accordingly.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • As I was working at one remove, I had to secondguess her moods and act accordingly.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • In backtesting those models outperform but, as Bogle and Malkiel have argued, trying to secondguess the markets is usually an exercise in futility: if fundamental indexers become the norm then the models would probably self-destruct.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

  • Seems different from their previous album. secondguess

    TuneLab Music - Everything Rock 2009

  • However, the petitioner is not entitled to the benefit of hindsight and may not secondguess a reasonably based trial strategy by counsel.

    unknown title 2009

  • I’m not enough of a baseball strategist to secondguess Girardi, but should something go wrong tonight, the “over-manager!” chorus is going to become deafening.

    Yanks-Phils Game 2 | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • It does no good to try to secondguess the doctor or to alarm the patient by saying things like, “Aren’t steroids very dangerous?” or “Did your doctor really say you could still keep working?”

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

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