guess at something

Examples of guessing

guessing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In a city where speculation fuels the money markets, second guessing about corporate futures is commonplace throughout the business community.
As for whether democracy can reduce it, or will itself be eroded by it, we are left guessing.
Oriented toward affect bonding between the par ticipants, invited guessing both indexes and strengthens their relationship.
Differential neural response to positive and negative feedback in planning and guessing tasks.
I sat through rehearsal after rehearsal trying to think ahead of her and guessing what the next instruction would be.
From guessing what teachers think to finding out what teachers know.
Some examples are guessing "man" for "human", or "fork" instead of "branch".
However, guessing is not so simple for large programs where higher-order functions (such as map) are called repeatedly with different higher-order arguments each time.
In short, guessing from context has serious limitations.
This the experiment does not tell us; it leaves to our sagacity the burden of guessing.
Patterns and perils of guessing in second language reading.
Effects of prior guessing on intentional and incidental paired-associate learning.
In such cases, the leadership or experts end up guessing at consensus, and it can appear 80 imposed.
There also seems to be some connection between invited guessing and the nature of the calls.
Social distance is a related factor that selects when and with whom invited guessing may occur.
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