I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good guess
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I’m not sure, but I could make a good guess .
guess the answer
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If you don’t know the answer, try guessing it.
hazarding a guess
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$50,000? I don’t know. I’m only hazarding a guess .
make...educated guess
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Investors must make an educated guess as to the company’s potential.
wild guess
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I’m just making a wild guess here, so correct me if I’m wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
correctly
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He wondered what was behind it and guessed correctly .
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The first team to guess correctly wins the round.
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Yesterday winners Jennie Edwards, 10, and Dawn Waters, 30, received their prize for guessing correctly .
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Campbell, who once challenged Lathrop to identify tenors in the same format, correctly guesses a handful of more than 20.
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You placed bets on what card was going to be drawn and you had to guess correctly to get your money back.
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The player who finally guesses correctly chooses the next card.
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Somehow my pursuer had guessed correctly at every turn.
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Of the 102 symbols, 79 were correctly guessed first time and only 8 symbols required more than 5 guesses.
never
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You'd never guess that the performances actually date from the early to mid-1960's!
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They had never seen a landscape like this, never guessed one could even exist.
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But he must never guess the truth.
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But soon, she noticed that he never guessed her name.
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But, encased in the false security of her new-found happiness, she had never guessed .
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They never guessed she found this distasteful.
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Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people.
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A person strolling through the dusty bed of the Arkansas near Dodge City might never guess at the river that was there.
only
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For example, instead of typing try other that you can only guess .
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I can only guess at what I have done to provoke her.
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What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there.
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Why this was so we can only guess .
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Once again, we can never know, only guess .
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What Baden Powell would say to a rap anthem, one can only guess at.
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That little creature must have had a strength to survive that we can only guess at.
right
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Duncan had guessed right about it being a Shogun, the smaller, two-door version.
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If we guess right , then we confirm his suspicions.
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As it turns out, David guesses right .
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She'd guessed right the first time.
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And still Jinny did not guess right .
■ NOUN
prize
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No prizes either for guessing his four-legged friend is named after a famous Liverpool manager.
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There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.
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No prizes for guessing the names of the owners here.
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Enclosed his picture - no prizes for guessing his breed.
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Yesterday winners Jennie Edwards, 10, and Dawn Waters, 30, received their prize for guessing correctly.
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No prizes for guessing the answer to that question.
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No prizes for guessing what she was wearing.
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No prizes for guessing that Brahms is a major culprit.
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I might have known/guessed etc
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All those years I might have known her!
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Although I might have known you'd arrive just as drinks were being ordered!
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Dear little Papa, as I might have known!
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If you'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed.
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It was nothing I might have guessed.
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Of course, I might have known that you'd have some clever way of dealing with everything, though.
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Ooh! I might have known it!
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Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.
a conservative estimate/guess
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Conservative estimates indicate at least 150 people were killed in the military coup.
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All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths.
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At a conservative estimate the water was nearly a yard deep, even near the edge.
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At a conservative estimate they had cost considerably more than she had just paid for her night's lodging.
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By even a conservative estimate, about 10,000 Dall's porpoise were harpooned each year from 1976 to 1987.
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I understand that is a conservative estimate.
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Narcotics agents believe a conservative estimate of the number of laboratories is between 200 and 300.
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On a conservative estimate, there are now about 5,000 books or articles that deal with it, at least in part.
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On this basis imitation tasks ought to be regarded as giving a conservative estimate of the child's grammatical knowledge.
educated guess
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Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
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But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
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Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
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Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
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That sometimes means making educated guesses.
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The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
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Where and what kinds they will be is an open question that is, at best, an educated guess.
inspired guess/choice etc
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As it happens, he made an inspired choice.
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But my father's was an inspired guess.
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If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics, he could prove an inspired choice.
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In Whitham's case it was different and he certainly was what could be termed an inspired choice by the Lightweight club.
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It could prove an inspired choice for New Zealand.
no prizes for guessing sth
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Enclosed his picture - no prizes for guessing his breed.
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There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Are you Dan's brother?'' "Yes, how did you guess ?''
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"Don't tell me - you got the job." "How'd you guess ?"
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Guess how much I paid for this watch!
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Guess who I saw in town yesterday.
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Are you sure Linda's pregnant, or are you just guessing?
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Detectives guess the attacker must be aged from 25 - 30.
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From their behaviour it was easy to guess that they were married.
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Guy looked at her face, and guessed what she was thinking.
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He guessed she was about 30.
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I'm only guessing, but I should think their house is worth over a million.
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I didn't know all the answers so I just had to guess some of them.
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Luckily, I guessed the right answer and won the prize!
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Sally guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon.
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They had already guessed the truth about their son's disappearance.
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We can only guess at the cause of the crash.
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Which hand have I got the chocolate in? If you guess right you can have it.
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Already he's guessing the colour of her toothbrush.
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And I guess , yeah, we could stand to read more.
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I guess how each one I guess.
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I guess I was doing the best I could with the knowledge I had.
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No prizes either for guessing his four-legged friend is named after a famous Liverpool manager.
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Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night.
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She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers.
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You should have come to Ward or me the minute you suspected it, instead of fooling around guessing.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
educated
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Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
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Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses .
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But, beyond hunches and educated guesses , what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
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The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
good
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April is the best guess for first deliveries.
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About once a century is our best guess of how often such a cosmic calamity must occur somewhere on Earth.
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Ellen made a best guess as to how likely each one was to happen in the current situation.
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The best guess put her in her late twenties.
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A good guess , but false none the less.
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Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses .
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My best guess is that the forests will not recover for a long time, no matter what we do.
lucky
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It had been a lucky guess , that was all.
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Maybe they made a lucky guess .
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That had just been a lucky guess .
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The reporters could not tell whether this was because Kalmbach was a lucky guess or a ridiculous one.
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And a rather malicious lucky guess to boot.
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It is a very addictive game of logic, deduction, and lots of lucky guesses when you first play.
rough
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At the side put down a rough guess of the cost that might be involved.
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At a rough guess , Pierremont Gardens today stands where the real gardens of Pierremont used to be.
wild
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It had thrown her when Luke Calder had made that seemingly wild guess about her, but now she could understand it.
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Shall we take a wild guess ?
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The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking.
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That was Renato, still entertaining the class with wild guesses .
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If any child makes wild random guesses note quietly who it is: those pupils will need your attention.
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Still, it was discouraging that no one had ventured even a wild guess .
■ VERB
hazard
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Not being a builder, nor an architect, I can only hazard a guess .
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It would be foolish even to hazard a guess .
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The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking.
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We hazard a guess that they're lurking in a shoebox or, worse still, the ubiquitous carrier bag!
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What on earth the referee had done to incur such mindless, moronic abuse, one can only hazard a guess .
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I hazard a guess that there are not only pure stallions on the moor; fate and carelessness always complicates herd life.
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It was hard to say, even hazard a guess .
make
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I guessed , but did not make him confirm my guess.
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Maybe they made a lucky guess .
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So let me begin by making some impressionistic guesses about the views women do in fact currently hold on morality.
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Ellen made a best guess as to how likely each one was to happen in the current situation.
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Nor is there much existing evidence, here or in other countries, on which to make a reasonable guess .
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That sometimes means making educated guesses .
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Why do I make this bold guess ?
take
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Shall we take a wild guess ?
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Every time the father took a wrong guess , the youngest daughter laughed loudly.
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Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses .
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Where does all that money come from and where does it go? Take a guess .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I might have known/guessed etc
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All those years I might have known her!
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Although I might have known you'd arrive just as drinks were being ordered!
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Dear little Papa, as I might have known!
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If you'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed.
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It was nothing I might have guessed.
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Of course, I might have known that you'd have some clever way of dealing with everything, though.
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Ooh! I might have known it!
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Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.
a conservative estimate/guess
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Conservative estimates indicate at least 150 people were killed in the military coup.
▪
All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths.
▪
At a conservative estimate the water was nearly a yard deep, even near the edge.
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At a conservative estimate they had cost considerably more than she had just paid for her night's lodging.
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By even a conservative estimate, about 10,000 Dall's porpoise were harpooned each year from 1976 to 1987.
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I understand that is a conservative estimate.
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Narcotics agents believe a conservative estimate of the number of laboratories is between 200 and 300.
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On a conservative estimate, there are now about 5,000 books or articles that deal with it, at least in part.
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On this basis imitation tasks ought to be regarded as giving a conservative estimate of the child's grammatical knowledge.
educated guess
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Are at least able to make an educated guess as to who is collapsing the scrummage. 7.
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But, beyond hunches and educated guesses, what about other human characteristics such as beliefs, prejudices and emotions?
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Other of the source studies, however, used patient values, clinician values, or educated guesses.
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Still, money managers, analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
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That sometimes means making educated guesses.
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The law requires the chief of police to make educated guesses about the likelihood that disorder, damage or disruption will occur.
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Where and what kinds they will be is an open question that is, at best, an educated guess.
inspired guess/choice etc
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As it happens, he made an inspired choice.
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But my father's was an inspired guess.
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If he can be persuaded to keep religion out of politics, he could prove an inspired choice.
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In Whitham's case it was different and he certainly was what could be termed an inspired choice by the Lightweight club.
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It could prove an inspired choice for New Zealand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Did Cindy tell you that she's sold the business?" "No, it was just an educated guess ."
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"When was the house built - about 1600?" "That's a good guess - it was 1624."
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"Who's her new boyfriend then?" "I'll give you three guesses!''
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I'll give you three guesses.
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I'm not sure why she left him, but I think I can make a guess .
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I didn't really know the answer. It was just a lucky guess .
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This is only a guess , but I think Barbara might have gone to Jan's house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And those guesses will come more from our own sense of meaning and beauty than the actual beliefs of the cave artists.
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It is anybody's guess as to how the sale will fare.
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The reporters could not tell whether this was because Kalmbach was a lucky guess or a ridiculous one.
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What happens to Mr Mandelson next is anyone's guess .
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Your guess is as good as mine.