at a guess

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at a guess

  1. (informal) Upon cursory examination; at a glance.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 27:
      The woman opposite him was a mere girl - twenty at a guess.

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