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Synonyms for guessing
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  1. guess, guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoningnoun

    an estimate based on little or no information

    Synonyms:
    stab, injection, scene, guess, dig, stroke, barb, conjecture, surmise, gibe, shaft, guesswork, slam, crack, pellet, shooter, shooting, supposition, dead reckoning, blastoff, snap, surmisal, snapshot, hypothesis, speculation, shot, jibe

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  1. List of paraphrases for "guessing":

    guess, riddles, charades

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How to use guessing in a sentence?

  1. The Republican governor:

    We could have public executions and have, you know, we could even have (guessing) which hole it falls in.

  2. Gary Rabine:

    Bernie is not a guy that cares about ring-kissing or anything like that, he's a no b-s guy, and I'm guessing that Bernie couldn't care less whether he talks to him or not.

  3. Jerome Seymour Bruner:

    The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  4. John McEnroe:

    After the top few guys I'm guessing the fourth or fifth most desirable guy to watch is him.

  5. Dan Pendergast:

    When it starts to snow, you will get that initial snow to melt on the road and you are going to have traffic rolling over the road and more snow, the snow starts compacting and bonding to the road. You're not going to get it off, there's not a heck of a lot you can do because you're not going to be able to get the chemicals down and I'm guessing those areas don't have the equipment we have here, like the icebreakers and really good cutting-edge equipment. We have 800 plows in the state, 200 in the metro area, Atlanta and Virginia are probably going to have 40 or less.

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