Sentence examples for a calculated guess from inspiring English sources

They provide, at best, a calculated guess.

Mayor Jennifer Roberts (D) defended the move, saying it "should in no way be viewed as a compromise of our principles or commitment to non-discrimination". "They made a calculated guess about whether this was going to work," said James Esseks, director of the ACLU's LGBT and HIV Project.

Sometimes you may want to take a calculated guess at an answer or delete one of the answers you are not 100% of to make use of a shortcut.

It might come down to a hunch, a feeling, a calculated guess more than form or pedigree.

The really big costs of CD's derive from marketing, promotion, artists' fees, royalties and, often, an arbitrary markup representing a calculated guess at what the market will bear.

But what we see on television is usually just a representation, or a calculated guess, based on thermal imaging, sound, or the work of cameras tracking an object's velocity through air.

So the bravest make calculated guesses and charge like hell into the fog of war.

Alex Hope: [People] always say 'oh is it gambling?'... Guessing is gambling, knowing what you're doing equals a calculated risk.

Talk about a calculated risk.

This is a calculated risk.

Of greater concern is the fact that they do not report a per-test accuracy, instead reporting the chance of correctly guessing paternity in 30 cases, which is one in a billion—a number calculated by taking the chance of correctly guessing paternity per test (1/2) and raising it to the 30th power (30 tests).