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as in to speculate (about)
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Recent Examples of second-guess
Looking back on it, do you ever second-guess yourself?
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Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
This may cause one partner to become the emotional fixer and the other to feel watched, second-guessed or subtly managed.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
No more second-guessing, the app tracks session history, ensuring a stress-free transition for working moms.
—Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025
The future of our country’s health care can no longer be about second-guessing, finger-pointing or armchair prognostications.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
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Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
This may cause one partner to become the emotional fixer and the other to feel watched, second-guessed or subtly managed.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
No more second-guessing, the app tracks session history, ensuring a stress-free transition for working moms.
—Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025
The future of our country’s health care can no longer be about second-guessing, finger-pointing or armchair prognostications.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for second-guess
Recent Examples of Synonyms for second-guess
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What her realization results in is a nearly 25-minute fight scene in the finale between Joe and Louise that ends with Louise outsmarting Joe at his own game and locking him up forever.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
24 Apr. 2025
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The trio must tag team to outsmart a cunning international thief and save a priceless diamond gauntlet — just in time for Christmas.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
15 Apr. 2025
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The research consortium has data from tissue samples that represents a resource the field has never had—and that is yet to be fully analyzed.—
Atul Gawande,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Sean Hartnoll has been analyzing the chaotic behavior found inside black holes in the hopes of coming up with a quantum theory of gravity.—
Lyndie Chiou,
Wired News,
20 Apr. 2025
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That model doesn't include reasoning capabilities, though.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2025
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Officials reasoned that the property’s existing zoning, neighborhood commercial — allowing restaurants, banks, barber shops and similar businesses — better served the community.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2025
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The old lad won the 2025 Masters in the most patent way possible, by outwitting an army of demons and finally meeting his place in history.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Virgil van Dijk got outwitted by the combative Rodrigo Muniz for Fulham’s third.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Musk has never denied his hard-charging style and believes that his work building electric cars and rockets is crucial for the health of the planet and the continuation of the human species, and that his DOGE work responds to threats of U.S. bankruptcy.—
Jonathan Landay,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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And if White Houses have believed this too, that the people that are being covered do not choose who covers them.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Guna have long thwarted real-estate developers and foreign investors eyeing both the shore and the uninhabited islands, which are a postcard vision of paradise.—
Mark Johanson,
AFAR Media,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Knights center used his stick to thwart a clearing attempt by Wild defenseman Brock Faber at the side of the net, then grabbed the loose puck and fired it into a tiny gap over Gustavsson’s right shoulder to give the home team the early lead.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
21 Apr. 2025
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This Wedding Banquet concludes with a scene of Angela, Lee, Min, and Chris jointly raising two children, the kid Angela had after a drunken fling with Chris and the one Lee had through the IVF that Min funded.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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The events will conclude with the beginning of the Novemdiales, a symbolic and procedural period of nine days of prayer, mourning and remembrance.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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What frustrates you most about navigating love in the digital age?—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
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Piastri and his camp, led by steely former F1 racer Mark Webber, were frustrated with Alpine’s slow progress towards his F1 graduation.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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