How to Use estimation in a Sentence

estimation

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  • This is not, in my estimation, an efficient use of our resources.
  • She went down in her supporters' estimation after she voted against the plan.
  • Planning the project requires careful cost estimation.
  • All of this is going to take a long time, about 10 to 15 years by Greene’s estimation.
    — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • By contrast, his team still has a ways to go in his estimation.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Fouls were a problem, even though in the estimation of Ike, her youth coach, and Raegan.
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2023
  • So the sale arrived and a very good surprise: The piece sold for more than the high estimation and that’s how my name started to spread.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
  • By his estimation, BYU will be able to get in nine or 10 practices from this point until the bowl game.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In his estimation, Harpootlian said Murdaugh would have had about 10 minutes to kill his wife and son, drive up to the house and then get on the road.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Ukrainization, in Putin’s estimation, was a weapon of war.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The utility contends that the faulty bills were the result of a mass estimation process, not the meter readers.
    — Heather Gann | Hgann@al.com, al, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In my estimation, there’s a three- to five-year window where kind of everybody can eat to their fill.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • So in your estimation, what made Manifest the one to pull it off some 8 years later?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Kevin Chalfant is a very fine singer, and in my estimation, underrated in the world of pop singers.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In my estimation, about 20% of the audience that filled the residence’s chapel was made up of arts lovers who do not live at the Towers.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • That your friend has an estimation of the restaurant that is not as favorable as yours.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The estimation of the dead fish came after initial testing and sampling by the state agency, Mertz said.
    — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Even the achievement of the lowest estimation would set a world-record price for a Darwin manuscript.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Since that trip, she’s been back, by her estimation, for at least one show a year, and often many more than that — too many performances to count.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The more wave peaks that pass that point, the better our estimation of each wave’s velocity.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In my estimation, few films have reached the heights of Brian De Palma’s classic tale of psychic vengeance.
    — Chloe Okuno, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • His is, by my estimation, the voiciest translation of the novel thus far.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The results, in Hanslick’s estimation, fell woefully short of this goal.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This, in my estimation, will be a very modest downturn.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, canceling a game hurts the bottom line — each game nets the NFL upward of $30 million in revenue, per Steeg’s estimation.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Vargas Llosa’s estimation couldn’t be further off the mark.
    — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Cain, 72, went on to offer a number of examples of how the 68-year-old Schon, in his estimation, has diminished the band's legacy.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Why, in your estimation, is Virginia Woolf a supreme critic?
    — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 10 Dec. 2022
  • So now, the Lakers in our estimation, quickly come up with the best package and the Lakers are motivated on their end.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Part Two In my estimation, there were two major issues with the first Dune film, which was, overall, a breathtaking movie.
    — Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 29 Dec. 2023

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