reasonable guess
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreasonableandguess
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reasonable
adjective
uk/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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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 ofreasonableandguessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Byreasonableguessit is meant any point in the actual room or area of the building where the robot is.
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Being famous for the high torques and as suggested from the dynamical analysis,10 torque seems like areasonableguessfor the synchronization parameter.
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Provided that the assumption about the expenditure proves to be right, one can come to areasonableguessat what the answer will be.
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Most of us can hazard areasonableguessas to what they intend.
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We can make an educated andreasonableguessthat the majority of illegal immigrants will be found in those marginal industries.
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I hazard areasonableguessthat two-thirds of the workers in the construction industry do not want to join a trade union.
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On that evidence, no one can be expected to make even areasonableguessat the right date.
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We can make areasonableguessthat these phones were not thrown away, but were re-programmed and were therefore untraceable.
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Looking at the revenue out-turn for last year, a fairlyreasonableguessfor this year would be about £40 billion.
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I think it is areasonableguessthat over-all this will amount to some £100 million a year.
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It is impossible to say, as a scientific fact, that this is so, but it is areasonableguessthat there are some causes which are common.
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I would say that it is areasonableguessthat in the 21 months that have elapsed since then a further 20,000 have fulfilled those orders successfully.
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Areasonableguesswould be to assume the user is male.
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Such methods provide reasonable guesses at function, but are far from foolproof.
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Listeners do not tax their limited information processing capacities by conducting exhaustive syntactic analyses of incoming sentences, but rather make use of probabilistic heuristics in generating reasonable guesses.
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There are several reasonable guesses that can be made, however.
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