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estimate
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Fearless
- There is no way she's going to breast-feed Nathan standing in a line that she estimates will take fifteen minutes to get through.†
p. 133.2 *estimates = rough calculations or guesses of values, quantities, or extents
- But conservative estimates were in the thousands.†
p. 235.8
- On July 13, 2008, U.S. Army soldiers based at a remote command outpost near the village of Wanat in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, were surrounded and attacked by an estimated two hundred Taliban insurgents.†
p. 242.3estimated = roughly calculated or guessed (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
- From the boulder he bounced against a slope that he estimated at sixty degrees.†
p. 269.2
- No man had completed the journey without numerous falls; one SEAL estimated he'd gone down at least fifteen times, and they were all bloodied, bruised, and fatigued.†
p. 271.8
Definition:
rough calculation or judgment