guesses 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of guess
1
as in assumes
to form an opinion from little or no evidence though she does not speak with an accent, I would still guess that she is a foreigner

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2
as in estimates
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement I would guess the road goes for about two miles before you have to take a left

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3
as in thinks
to have as an opinion I never would have guessed that she was capable of such a terrible thing

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guesses

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noun

plural of guess
as in theories
an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence if you don't know the answer for sure, just make a guess

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Recent Examples of guesses
Verb
Seitz guesses this is what drew Audree in. — Meena Duerson, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026 There will be times when Bader guesses right and takes a good pass and hits a lineout. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026 When a player guesses a word, the squares change color to provide feedback. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 The panel picks up on the baseball-heavy clues, and guesses accordingly. — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026 Anyone who guesses the date the snow pile will be fully melted can win a $20 Freedom card, good for a few train rides. — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026 This adds another layer of protection if someone steals or guesses your password. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 Hoyt Purinton, owner of the only ferry line from the mainland, guesses the percentage is in the low single digits. — Charles Usher, Midwest Living, 26 May 2026 Ho Jin is visibly un-enthused, and Uncle guesses Mu Hee has given him an unfavourable impression of them. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
But those are my are my guesses right there. — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 Experts have made wide-ranging guesses for more than three decades. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026 Here are our best guesses at who’s headed to 4 Penn Plaza soon. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 30 June 2026 The zoo received 1,400 guesses. — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 Competitive Wordle Score Another tie game with four guesses each. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Each guess provides information that shapes subsequent guesses, progressively reducing uncertainty around what the actual word is. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 17 June 2026 Zuckerberg has stood up a team that is now working to release its own prediction market app called Arena, which internal documents reviewed by NPR show will allow people to make guesses about future events. — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guesses
  1. assumes
  2. estimates
  3. thinks
  4. theories
  5. suspects
  6. figures
  7. believes
  8. conjectures
Verb
  • The Gulf, though legally unchanged, now assumes direct Iranian strike risks.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Photos of the chefs are right there on the packaging, and the service correctly assumes that their reputations will draw you in.
    — Marisa Malanga, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 June 2026
Definition of assumes
Verb
  • The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that enforcing the measure would cost the government up to the low tens of millions annually, and that much of the cost would be paid for through penalties and fees charged to affected clinics.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Ritolia estimates Russian gasoline production is currently running at around 20% below domestic demand because of the Ukrainian strikes, with refinery runs (the amount of crude oil refineries are processing) at multi-year lows.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of estimates
Verb
  • Celebrity nail artist Queenie Nguyen thinks so—and there's no more perfect manicure than Capri Blue to match the moment.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 2 July 2026
  • Putin thinks that time is on his side, that Western support will peter out and that Ukraine’s resistance will eventually collapse under pressure from strategic bombing, analysts say.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of thinks
Noun
  • Now, a wave of new theories offers tantalizing solutions — but which ones portray reality is an open question.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • His theories have won praise in UFO circles but often put him in conflict with academic peers.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of theories
Verb
  • Nicole Brown, a historian of Martha Jefferson at Monticello, suspects that the impossible date was the result of turmoil in Jefferson’s personal life.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The plot follows an HR executive named Val at a South Bay aerospace company who suspects that Leela, a young, female engineer, was snubbed for a promotion.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Definition of suspects
Verb
  • The new 2nd Amendment case figures to be a major test of what kinds of firearms and ammunition are off-limits to state or federal regulation.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • By Saturday the official death toll had climbed past 1,400, with thousands injured and tens of thousands reported missing—figures the authorities acknowledged were still rising.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of figures
Verb
  • Ubel believes having multiple Mass options is about inclusion rather than division.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • He is driven, uncompromising, and firmly believes that his job is to document reality, not interfere with it.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 July 2026
Definition of believes
Noun
  • There have been a lot of conjectures, but little in the way of actual proof of what took place.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 May 2026
  • As part of the effort to prove these conjectures, Grothendieck proposed his notion of a scheme.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
Definition of conjectures

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