Synonyms for educated guess
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1. educated guessnoun

   Synonyms:
   hypothesis, intelligent guess, guesstimate

2. educated guessnoun

   An estimate, a guess value based on experience or theoretical knowledge.

   His educated guess was correct to within 2%, but then, he's been doing this for 10 years and knows what range of values to expect.

   Synonyms:
   guesstimate, intelligent guess, hypothesis

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1. Kunho Lee:

   The supply will be overflowing at that point but it's difficult to pin down the exact order of magnitude, an educated guess is that we are unlikely to be in the market for the rest of the year.

2. Eric Klein:

   It is simply an educated guess and nobody wants to be treated as a statistic, some docs may not be aware of the guidelines, but most patients think they are going to live forever and want to do everything they can to make that happen.

3. Buzz Aldrin:

   I am using past history … and probabilities here and there – sometimes it’s called an educated guess, i think it’s going to work out real well because what we need is some kind of consistency with occasional surprise – you need to know when to throw in the unusual.

4. Leo Dotson:

   It doesn't concern me. What is science? Science is an educated guess, what if they guess wrong? There's just as much chance as them to be wrong as there is for them to be right.

5. Karim Sadr:

   I have counted about 800 homesteads in this area and there are probably more, but it is difficult to say how many people occupied the city at any time, since not all the homesteads would have been occupied concurrently and some may have contained many more people than others, my guess is that the city never had more than 10,000 people at any one time, but that is just an educated guess.