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Idiom

hazard a guess

Meaning

To make a guess; to guess.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I can only hazard a guess about the final score.”

“Since I have not read the report yet, I can only hazard a guess as to why the project failed.”

“While the experts could not confirm the exact origin of the artifact, they were willing to hazard a guess that it belonged to a lost civilization.”

Examples

simple

“I can only hazard a guess about the final score.”

contextual

“Since I have not read the report yet, I can only hazard a guess as to why the project failed.”

complex

“While the experts could not confirm the exact origin of the artifact, they were willing to hazard a guess that it belonged to a lost civilization.”

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