involve guesswork
Frequency: 6.50.7 per million words
Means that a process or activity includes an element of uncertainty or estimation.
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Examples (10)
- Predicting the stock market's daily fluctuations often involves a great deal of guesswork.
- Early navigation involved a lot of guesswork before the invention of the compass.
- I'm not comfortable with any strategy involving so much guesswork when our money is on the line.
- Until we have more data, any conclusion about the planet's atmosphere will involve some guesswork.
- A precise scientific experiment should not involve guesswork at any stage.
- Does your job as a political analyst involve a lot of guesswork when predicting election outcomes?
- Creating a new recipe always involves some guesswork with the seasoning.
- Forecasting quarterly earnings inevitably involves an element of guesswork, even with sophisticated models.
- If the project still involves this much guesswork, we are not ready to launch.
- The detective's initial investigation involved a fair amount of guesswork to connect the disparate clues.