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Guessed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Guess

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
  • (2) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (3) I guess that’s my socialist principles,” says the older woman.
  • (4) Iowa (10pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.0pt 2008 result: Obama won by 9.4pt 2004 result: Bush won by 0.7pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Polk (+5.1), Scott (+5.0), Woodbury (-10.0) This state is where the primary season begins, and it likes to keep Americans guessing.
  • (5) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
  • (6) The most serious attack is called offline password guessing.
  • (7) And Bristol, I guess, is following on because it has an ambition to become something similar.” According to Key, Bristol’s congestion problems are only as bad as those of other UK cities, and it’s “streets ahead” on walking and cycling .
  • (8) The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p ; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible.
  • (9) As you might have already guessed, I welcome the "rise of house prices".
  • (10) I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam.
  • (11) Robben's penalty was so well placed that it sneaked in despite Casillas's guessing right and almost reaching his own post.
  • (12) We had a meeting of minds, I guess you’d say,” Whillock told the Guardian.
  • (13) No precise estimate was availabletoday, but the Tories on a first guess believe spending outside the protected areas will have to fall by 7% over the two years.
  • (14) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) #Cardinals fans on the road with predictions for G6 #WorldSeries guess who they like tonight?
  • (15) They have already forced government exporters to sell their dollars, and same will happen for banks I guess, so in a sense, capital controls are already in place,” said Sergei Guriev, an exiled economist who fled Russia after criticising the Kremlin.
  • (16) With their news and social media interest, they will be noting everything that follows their murderous assault on Paris, and my guess is that right now the chant among them will be “We are winning”.
  • (17) All these were produced by School 21’s pupils and he invites me to guess the age group; each time, I overestimate by at least two years.
  • (18) Instructing the subjects to guess or not to guess had an effect of intra-array, displacement, and extra-array errors.
  • (19) But on the strength of the effort expended on the right royal cover-up thus far, it seems a fair guess that officials and ministers will have given the prince’s letters rather more favourable attention than routine correspondence with a member of the public.
  • (20) Wang admitted basing his report “on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”, Xinhua added.

Guesser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, the knower pointed to the correct cup while the guesser pointed to an incorrect one.
  • (2) They also showed transfer to a novel variation of the task, in which the guesser remained inside the room and covered his head while the knower stood next to him and watched a third experimenter bait the cups.
  • (3) The knower pointed to the correct cup while the guesser pointed to an incorrect one.
  • (4) The guesser waited outside the room until the food was hidden.
  • (5) Your guessers were terrible, like toddlers hypothesising how a helicopter works.
  • (6) If it can, the guesser indexes the target hard drive and creates a dictionary out of every printable string, including deleted files.
  • (7) One guesser I studied starts with a dictionary of about 1,000 common passwords, things like "letmein," "temp," "123456," and so on.
  • (8) The guesser waited outside the room or covered her or his head until the food was hidden.
  • (9) None of the macaques provided any evidence that they realized the different states of knowledge possessed by the guesser and knower.
  • (10) As computers have become faster, the guessers have got better, sometimes being able to test hundreds of thousands of passwords per second.
  • (11) Then the guesser tries different dictionaries: English words, names, foreign words, phonetic patterns and so on for roots; two digits, dates, single symbols and so on for appendages.
  • (12) The subjects were tested to determine if they could discriminate between information provided by experimenters who randomly alternated between roles of guesser and knower.
  • (13) The subjects chose between information about the location of hidden food provided by 2 experimenters who randomly alternated between two roles (the guesser and the knower).
  • (14) These guessers might run for months on many machines simultaneously.
  • (15) Any smart guesser collects whatever personal information it can on the subject before beginning.
  • (16) If anyone reading this runs a news channel, please, don't clog the airwaves with fact-free conjecture unless you're going to replace the word "expert" with "guesser" and the word "speculate" with "guess", so it'll be absolutely clear that when the anchor asks the expert to speculate, they're actually just asking a guesser to guess.

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