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How to use the word estimate in a Sentence?

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My estimate is about 100,000. It’s going to be havoc, you can’t just think about the direct impact of the shaking, you must also think about what will follow the shaking. There will be looting, fires, epidemics. It’s going to be terrible.

Celal Sengor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Given how warm February was, there is a risk of another upside surprise in the jobs data like there was in January with the gain of 517,000, even as the Bureau of Labor Statistics tries to correct for the seasonal noise, even if there is a healthy downward revision to the January estimate, it will require another month at least for the noise in the data to be corrected and the true pace of hiring to be understood.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These field trips can take two-three weeks and involve four to six people. For this, I need to estimate the meals they will need away from the station. Every time I cook a large meal, I freeze portions so that researchers can take these, defrost, and enjoy, without needing to waste valuable time in the field.

Thomas Duconseille

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Willow is just the start based on what industry has planned, the total estimate for the amount of oil that could be accessible in the region around Willow is 7 or 8 billion barrels.

Jeremy Lieb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Google’s own documents estimate that it keeps at least 30 cents of each advertising dollar that flows through Google’s advertising tools.

Jonathan Kanter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You’d have to drink an incredible amount of water — we estimate a month of contaminated water — to get the same exposure as you would from a single serving of freshwater fish, consuming even a single (locally caught freshwater) fish per year can measurably and significantly change the levels of PFOS in your blood.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We estimate that Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore would benefit the most if China’s travel service imports were to return to 2019 levels.

Goldman Sachs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that the estimate is high, and that is worthy of attention, but I also think that one needs to recognize that before launching into a full-out assault on the problem, it needs to have a clear understanding of why this problem is happening.

Beth Asch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because that 20 % estimate is from the analysis controlling for measured and unmeasured variables.

Stephanie Zellers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If it is an unreasonable increase in the insured value of your property, make an appeal to your company and get a contractor to give you an estimate of what your property in your area would cost to rebuild.

Jim Donelon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it defies imagination that Elon Musk and Elon Musk collaborators would be in a better position to give a good faith estimate of what the automated activity is, so, this is kind of like sharing a lot of information for no good reason, and whenever you do that, it raises concerns.

Ryan Calo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the main ways that inauthentic behavior is used in the political environment is to make someone look more popular than they are by generating a bunch of random accounts and following them... by getting access to the firehose, it doesn't even give you an accurate picture of inauthentic behavior that could be problematic, i think it defies imagination that Elon Musk and Elon Musk collaborators would be in a better position to give a good faith estimate of what the automated activity is.

Ryan Calo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The good news is that we got a huge Omicron surge in the US. Millions of people were infected, and between the number of people infected and the number of people who were already vaccinated, we estimate that about 73 % to 75 % of the population has some degree of immunity.

Del Rio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's not a foregone conclusion, in my professional military estimate, that the Taliban automatically win and Kabul falls, or any of those kind of dire predictions, there's a significant military capability in the Afghan government, and we have to see how this plays out.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The recent population estimate of more than 1,000 bears is based on a new counting methodology, and the public should be aware that the grizzly bear population did not explode overnight.

Andrea Zaccardi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, the administration had made an estimate that the mandate would result in 22 million people getting vaccinated and prevent 250,000 hospitalizations. The usual six voted the way we would expect them to vote, the six right-wingers, at this point … have they not just simply stated by their actions that they are more in favor of right-wing politics … than they are in favor of saving lives? They don’t really care if this causes less people to die, clearly.

Joy Reid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would estimate it's going to be at least 500 homes( destroyed), i would not be surprised if it's 1,000.

Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One estimate put Russia’s winter wheat planting down about 1% on 2021. Still, with normal yields, that would imply a 5.5 million tonnes lift in Russia’s wheat crop in season 2022.

Tobin Gorey

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The method that is being used to produce this estimate, hopefully, others can use that going forward. To improve, you first have to know where you stand, golf courses are sequestering a considerable amount of carbon, which I think few people actually associate with golf. On the flipside, golf is a large land user and bound to be using wetlands in places. Emissions when you drain wetlands are so great.

Edwin Roald

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The odds are for the next few months, only locals will visit the lodge, we estimate a 60% loss of business because of the omicron restrictions.

Frederic Plachesi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've never really had a formal estimate made of how many people have been struggling with this, this is a really unusual event in terms of olfactory dysfunction and an unprecedented consequence of a pandemic that's never really been observed before.

Sandeep Robert Datta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We anticipated further earnings estimate reductions through the 3Q results season, due to sustained PPI inflation, power shortages, and Delta-variant Covid outbreaks.

Morgan Stanley

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

What has changed here more recently is the impact of the pandemic and the border closures to stop Covid-19, those who have been coming in the past few months are entering illegally and we estimate that only one-third of them traveled directly from Venezuela. The rest came from Colombia, Ecuador, or Peru because they lost their jobs there.

Marcela Tapia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The city’s estimate is that 97% of the teachers have been vaccinated, but according to our recent survey of UFT chapter leaders, only about one-third believe that as of now their schools can open without disruption, given the potential shortage of unvaccinated personnel, including school aides and security personnel, the city has a lot of work before it to ensure that enough vaccinated staff will be available by the new deadline.

Michael Mulgrew

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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