informed guess
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinformedandguess
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informed
adjective
uk/ɪnˈfɔːmd/us/ɪnˈfɔːrmd/
having a lot of knowledge or information ...
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guess
noun[C]
uk/ɡes/us/ɡes/
an attempt to give the right answer when you are not certain if you ...
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(Definition ofinformedandguessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First a profile of the meniscus is chosen, either by aninformedguessor on the basis of the previous iterations.
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One reason is that percentages for uncommon conditions may represent not much more than aninformedguess.
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Is he also aware that a reasonable,informedguesscan be made?
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We should be wary of placing a huge reliance on advice when that advice can only be aninformedguess.
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The truth is that those figures are not targets, but merely projections—aninformedguessor an estimate of what might be needed.
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He said that he was taking a gamble and that it was aninformedguessthat the new power would be properly used.
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It makes aninformedguess.
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My veryinformedguessis that it will not come off and that nothing will happen.
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He said that only aninformedguesstells him that the new power will be properly used.
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It is aninformedguess.
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Such a figure would be aninformedguessof the cost of development and would make it a major hospital development.
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I believe that its report is due to be published next month and myinformedguessis that it will make extremely gloomy reading.
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Of course, that judgment, too, will be a guess, but at least it will be aninformedguess.
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All one can do is to make aninformedguessas to how long great new buildings of this kind will take to complete.
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That would be what one might call aninformedguess.
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It is at best aninformedguess.
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It is a bad principle of law to make, at best, what can only be aninformedguessor estimate into the basis for the commission of a criminal offence.
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Not having the intelligence of a human being, it does not make aninformedguessto fill the gap; so at least it is known when there is a gap.
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