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"It was colder and windier than I had guessed it would be.",
"She can only guess what he meant.",
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"If you can't think of an answer, guess .",
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"As you might have guessed , her parents are not happy about her decision.",
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"Noun",
"I'm not sure how old he is, but I'm willing to hazard a guess .",
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"In April, Peacock revealed that Alfonso and Reckell would star in the second season of the DOOL spin-off, but fans were left to guess how Bo would make his big return. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 28 June 2022",
"At Disney, he is known for peppering conversations with movie lines, sometimes playfully testing subordinates to guess their origin. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Those attending the party were asked at the start of the video to guess the baby\u2019s gender. \u2014 Cale Clinton, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
"Lauren told me that the women of Season 1, who had all met Cameron in their own pod-dating round-robins, tried to guess his race based on his voice. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Try to guess the answers based on the clues before scrolling down. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Whatever the calculations say, the rise in payments is being driven by factors that anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to the news should be able to guess : supply-chain issues and inflation caused or made worse by the pandemic. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 19 June 2022",
"Who could guess audiences would line up around the block for that",
"Whether that\u2019s late 2022 or early 2023 is still anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Doyel:What Pacers do with highest pick since 1989 is anyone's guess . \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"That's anyone's guess considering the logjam in the backcourt, even if assuming veteran John Wall is still not part of the team's plans. \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 7 June 2022",
"Whether this is the year Apple finally shows its cards for that future, however, is anyone's guess . \u2014 Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN , 5 June 2022",
"How far the increasingly bold, conservative justices will go in repudiating the high court\u2019s half century of decisions regarding a right to personal privacy is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Just when Ariya orders will reopen is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Peter Lyon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"If Levine is right, that points to a trade, although whether on a lower price or on the amount of damages, is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 21 May 2022",
"Whether and how the takeover will happen is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 14 May 2022",
"Whether and how the takeover will happen is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, ajc , 14 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One early guesstimate located the heliopause as close as Jupiter. \u2014 Tim Folger, Scientific American , 18 June 2022",
"When planting a crop, a Christmas tree farmer has to decide \u2014 or guesstimate \u2014 what varieties customers will want to buy almost a decade later when that crop is ready to be sold. \u2014 Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Estimates are hard to come by, but one guesstimate is that the underground economy amounted to 11 - 12% of US GDP in 2018. \u2014 Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Goldman Sachs this week issued a more pessimistic economic forecast than previous predictions, shaving growth projections for this year from 5.7% to 5.6%, and lowering its 2022 guesstimate from 4.4% to 4%. \u2014 Paul Begala, CNN , 12 Oct. 2021",
"This is just a projection, a guesstimate without having a grip on what the Guardians\u2019 26-man roster will look like. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Our guesstimate : About 95 percent maskless on Saturday. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Olivier Blanchard, a former MIT professor who served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, recently offered a guesstimate that spending of about $1 trillion would meet the country\u2019s needs. \u2014 Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com , 10 Feb. 2021",
"In an Instagram post on Friday, the 27-year-old debuted a hot new do: 24 inches (best guesstimate ) of sleek jet-black hair, pressed bone straight, and blunt cut bangs. \u2014 Jennifer Ford, Essence , 1 May 2020"
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"Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, along with guest star Amy Schumer and showrunner John Hoffman, premiered the season season of their hit whodunit on Monday at Los Angeles\u2019 DGA Theater. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 1 July 2022",
"The veteran comedian has been announced as a guest star on the sixth and final season of the popular Breaking Bad prequel. \u2014 Rosa Escandon, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Legendary actress and six-time Emmy Award winner Carol Burnett will appear as a guest star on the drama in Season 6. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 27 June 2022",
"Better Call Saul has announced an unexpected guest star for its final stretch of episodes: Carol Burnett. \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 27 June 2022",
"With Oscar winner Ariana DeBose appearing as a guest star, the fourth season\u2019s cast also includes Emmy Award-winner Thandiwe Newton, Angela Sarafyan, Tessa Thompson, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Luke Hemsworth, and Aaron Paul. \u2014 John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone , 25 June 2022",
"The cast also includes Chris Bauer, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Mike Rob, Fred Grandy, Steven Ogg, Susan Ruttan, and David Wells, as well as guest star Kate Walsh. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
"Due to the limited space, the guest list was quite small. \u2014 Carolyn Hax, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"As expected, there were some A-listers on the guest list, including Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton, and Donatella Versace. \u2014 Erica Gonzales, ELLE , 11 June 2022",
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"Kirkconnell publicly apologized for her past behavior, and guest host Emmanuel Acho led the then ex-couple (who later reconnected) into a conversation about race. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 9 June 2022",
"Highlights include live music, multicultural performances, African dance, Native American blessing and Aztek Dance, headliner Pato Banton and guest speakers along with vegan food and an outdoor cultural arts and craft vendors marketplace. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Luis Guzm\u00e1n will guest star as Gomez, the Addams family patriarch and Wednesday\u2019s father. \u2014 Lauren Puckett-pope, ELLE , 8 June 2022",
"Luis Guzm\u00e1n will guest star in the series as Wednesday\u2019s father Gomez. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 6 June 2022",
"Cattrall will guest star as the Southern debutante mother of Brodie (Devin Way) and Julian (Ryan O\u2019Connell), while Lewis will play the single mother of Mingus (Fin Argus). \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 13 May 2022",
"Willis reportedly agreed to guest star on the show after losing a bet with Matthew Perry on the set of the movie, The Whole Nine Yards. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Lachlan Buchanan also guest stars in this new episode. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Two days later, former Orioles players will guest bartend at Looney\u2019s Pub in Fulton from 6-8 p.m. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 24 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That problem can be solved all over America with a guest worker program. \u2014 Baltimore Sun , 18 May 2022",
"That began to change about a decade ago, when the first of dozens of young, white workers flew in from South Africa on special guest worker visas. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
"In December, the government announced that 20,000 seasonal guest worker visas would be added to the allotment of 33,000 for the winter to assist employers in landscaping, construction and hospitality, areas that are desperately in need of workers. \u2014 The New York Times, Arkansas Online , 6 Feb. 2022",
"The agricultural guest worker program, known by the shorthand H-2A, was once shunned by farmers here and elsewhere as expensive and bureaucratic. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Nov. 2021",
"The agricultural guest worker program, known as H-2A, allows agricultural employers to hire temporary workers from outside the U.S. to address labor shortages. \u2014 Lautaro Grinspan, ajc , 9 Dec. 2021",
"As an undocumented guest worker , Ali was likely frequently at risk of being exploited by Korean employers, a reality for many of his similar migrant background, Lee said. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Texas Republicans once backed the need for a guest worker program for immigrants, and allowing the children of immigrants in the country without authorization to pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges. \u2014 Dallas News , 27 Sep. 2021",
"Commonly, after their student visa many would secure sponsorship for their first job via the H-1B guest worker visa. \u2014 Adi Gaskell, Forbes , 6 May 2021"
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"Calculating the drug's long-term effects is pure guesswork .",
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"Nevertheless, as the system developed over time, the guesswork was taken out of it. \u2014 Mark Deeks, Forbes , 2 July 2022",
"That's why the Good Housekeeping Institute Textiles Lab took the guesswork out of shopping for a waterproof mattress cover. \u2014 Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping , 25 May 2022",
"Avian flu can be catastrophic to commercial bird populations, as well as devastating to wild birds and domesticated backyard birds, but the potential impact in Oregon at this point remains little more than guesswork . \u2014 oregonlive , 18 May 2022",
"Take a cue from Julia Roberts and remove the guesswork from getting ready for the office by investing in your own pair of oxford heels below. \u2014 Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Thus, modeling box office potential in China during the greenlighting process has always been a matter of guesswork for the studios. \u2014 Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Colleen Cira, a clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, recommends eliminating as much guesswork as possible on the front end. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"But officers form that suspicion with little more than guesswork and their own biases. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
"But the voting public shouldn't be asked to support GOP candidates purely on hunches and guesswork . \u2014 Joel Mathis, The Week , 3 Dec. 2021"
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"The guerrillas controlled half the country.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the subway, a clanking metaphor of New Yorkers\u2019 common yet separate journeys, whole cars and station passageways seemed to pass rhythmically in and out of civil authority, like provinces in a country gripped by a guerrilla war. \u2014 Jim Sleeper, The New Republic , 16 June 2022",
"Parks is the bridge between the civil rights generation and many of today\u2019s social justice agitators \u2014 the selfie takers, the guerrilla street photographers and credentialed veterans. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The left-leaning Presidents of Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia also came, as did the Colombian Presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla . \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"The group was never as large or as violent as the country\u2019s main guerrilla force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"The front-runner is a one-time leftist guerrilla who won\u2019t disavow his past and who vows to launch a radical economic upheaval. \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Gustavo Petro, a leftist former guerrilla , took the most votes in the first round of Colombia\u2019s presidential election. \u2014 WSJ , 30 May 2022",
"Instead of the conservative standard-bearer, voters favored Gustavo Petro, 62, a left-wing senator and former guerrilla , who received about 40% of votes, according to official results. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 30 May 2022",
"Polls show Petro, a 62-year-old senator and former guerrilla member, in the lead. \u2014 Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Experts say ex- guerrilla fighters, who once occupied the most remote parts of Colombia\u2019s jungles, forests, mountains, and savannas, are uniquely prepared to aid scientists with ongoing conservation efforts. \u2014 Lindsey Mcginnis, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Aug. 2020",
"That was the year that social media really started to take off, which gave restaurants and bars this megaphone to kind of guerrilla market on their own. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Sep. 2019",
"Paolo Luers, a journalist and former guerrilla press officer who became part of Mijango\u2019s team, told me. \u2014 Daniel Castro, Harper's magazine , 10 June 2019",
"Maybe a little too guerrilla style for some of the crews. \u2014 Gary Thompson, Philly.com , 5 Apr. 2018",
"Her interviews were guerrilla achievements and global events. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 16 Oct. 2017"
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"Unlike other, fancier-sounding plants\u2014lady\u2019s mantle, love-lies-bleeding, guelder rose \u2014the sunflower, without apparent effort, conjures up a world of warmth and light with two and a half simple syllables. \u2014 Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker , 7 Oct. 2020"
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"guessing":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to form an opinion of from little or no evidence":[
"She could only guess what he meant."
],
": believe , suppose":[
"I guess you're right"
],
": to arrive at a correct conclusion about by conjecture, chance, or intuition":[
"guess the answer"
],
": to make a guess":[
"We can only guess at what really happened."
],
": conjecture , surmise":[
"I don't know how old you are, but I'll venture a guess ."
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8ges"
],
"synonyms":[
"assume",
"conjecture",
"daresay",
"imagine",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspect",
"suspicion"
],
"antonyms":[
"conjecture",
"shot",
"supposition",
"surmise"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Can you guess how many people were there",
"He guessed that it would rain today.",
"It was colder and windier than I had guessed it would be.",
"She can only guess what he meant.",
"I had to choose one, and I guessed right.",
"If you can't think of an answer, guess .",
"\u201cI just heard why he left her.\u201d \u201cLet me guess \u2014another woman.\u201d",
"As you might have guessed , her parents are not happy about her decision.",
"We can only guess at what really happened.",
"She guessed my age on her first try.",
"Noun",
"I'm not sure how old he is, but I'm willing to hazard a guess .",
"My guess is that he'll change his story when he realizes how much trouble he's in.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"In April, Peacock revealed that Alfonso and Reckell would star in the second season of the DOOL spin-off, but fans were left to guess how Bo would make his big return. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 28 June 2022",
"At Disney, he is known for peppering conversations with movie lines, sometimes playfully testing subordinates to guess their origin. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"Those attending the party were asked at the start of the video to guess the baby\u2019s gender. \u2014 Cale Clinton, USA TODAY , 27 June 2022",
"Lauren told me that the women of Season 1, who had all met Cameron in their own pod-dating round-robins, tried to guess his race based on his voice. \u2014 Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Try to guess the answers based on the clues before scrolling down. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
"Whatever the calculations say, the rise in payments is being driven by factors that anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to the news should be able to guess : supply-chain issues and inflation caused or made worse by the pandemic. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 19 June 2022",
"Who could guess audiences would line up around the block for that",
"Whether that\u2019s late 2022 or early 2023 is still anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Doyel:What Pacers do with highest pick since 1989 is anyone's guess . \u2014 James Boyd, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"That's anyone's guess considering the logjam in the backcourt, even if assuming veteran John Wall is still not part of the team's plans. \u2014 Rahat Huq, Chron , 7 June 2022",
"Whether this is the year Apple finally shows its cards for that future, however, is anyone's guess . \u2014 Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN , 5 June 2022",
"How far the increasingly bold, conservative justices will go in repudiating the high court\u2019s half century of decisions regarding a right to personal privacy is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times , 3 June 2022",
"Just when Ariya orders will reopen is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Peter Lyon, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"If Levine is right, that points to a trade, although whether on a lower price or on the amount of damages, is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 21 May 2022",
"Whether and how the takeover will happen is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News , 14 May 2022",
"Whether and how the takeover will happen is anyone\u2019s guess . \u2014 Barbara Ortutay, ajc , 14 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gessen , perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian & Swedish gissa to guess, Middle Dutch gissen, gessen , Old Norse geta to get, guess \u2014 more at get":"Verb and Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225042"
},
"guest bedroom":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a bedroom for a person who is invited to visit or stay in someone's home":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232026"
},
"guest appearance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": appearing or performing as a guest":[
"He'll be making a special guest appearance on the popular television show next fall."
