pure guesswork
Frequency: 6.80.8 per million words
Refers to a conclusion with no factual basis, based entirely on speculation.
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- Their price estimates are based on pure guesswork.
- Without any data, my answer would be pure guesswork.
- Is this financial forecast based on solid research, or is it just pure guesswork?
- The early maps of the continent were a mixture of exploration and pure guesswork.
- Honestly, figuring out what he wants is just pure guesswork at this point.
- Her initial diagnosis, made without the test results, was pure guesswork.
- The number of people who will attend the event seems to be a matter of pure guesswork.
- Predicting the winner of the competition is pure guesswork since all the finalists are equally talented.
- Any attempt to determine the original author's intent is, for the most part, pure guesswork.
- The detective admitted that, lacking evidence, his theory was nothing more than pure guesswork.