gauging

verb

variants also gaging
present participle of gauge
1
as in estimating
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement glance over the pattern and try to gauge how much fabric you'll need

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2
as in measuring
to find out the size, extent, or amount of very difficult to gauge how upset he really is by his controlled reaction

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Recent Examples of gauging The think tank studies California’s political geography every few years, gauging which issues residents care about the most. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Only gauging team climate once a year is the equivalent of testing oxygen annually. — Nilton Bernini, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 And there’s at least some truth to competing states gauging his interest in moving, with Tennessee officials extending an invitation in July. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 Willcox found a very low-tech but effective way of gauging the state of the Spanish team. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 The Chicago school board voted to add two questions to the November ballot gauging whether city voters would support drumming up new revenue for Chicago Public Schools. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 Traders were gauging the odds of an imminent hike, and simultaneously demanded more compensation to hold longer government debt, believing that inflation would continue to bite. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 July 2026 Bart Jansen Despite widespread interest in finding the origin of COVID-19 and gauging the government’s response to it, the hearing with Fauci is expected to be highly partisan. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 July 2026 The most recent poll from ICS/Iscte gauging the public’s trust in Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro’s government, in March, found 34% gave it a positive rating and 56% a negative. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gauging
  1. estimating
  2. measuring
  3. calculating
  4. figuring
  5. making
  6. guessing
  7. judging
Verb
  • Other Grail investigators modeled the likely impact of their multicancer test, estimating a 25% reduction in the death rate for all cancers combined.
    — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The Forest Service also has a substantial backlog of deferred road maintenance, with the agency estimating that cost at more than $9 billion.
    — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of estimating
Verb
  • Industry reporting has described the vessel as a roughly 9,000-TEU container ship measuring about 270 metres in length.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Eventually the quilt grew to include 1,920 panels, each measuring 3 feet by 6 feet, the same size as a grave.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of measuring
Verb
  • Payment history is the largest factor in calculating a FICO® Score, accounting for 35% of the score.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
  • People with eating disorders may exhibit compulsive behaviors around both exercise and eating, including working out for multiple hours every day and carefully calculating every aspect of their diet.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of calculating
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  • This is also figuring that Warners unleashes Digger on Premium VOD soon and does a decent number relative to the box office because people are curious.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
  • UConn has been figuring it out with 87 new players, many of whom hadn’t seen regular game reps at their prior stop.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of figuring
Verb
  • Crafting the ‘nudge’ As an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, Carleton spent two summers working in a Johns Hopkins prostate cancer lab and was surprised to see surgeons making a point to attend the department’s journal club.
    — Allessandra DiCorato, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
  • If the waiver is granted, callers would still be limited by certain conditions, including allowing consumers to opt out and making no more than three calls within 30 days to each individual recipient.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of making
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  • Then, just to keep us guessing, Pugh attended a press event at New York’s Paley Center in an ethereal all-white Erdem gown, a personification of symbolic innocence.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Booking Holdings’ chief financial officer thinks the companies spending the most on artificial intelligence are guessing.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of guessing
Verb
  • Google isn’t making any significant design changes to its upcoming midrange Pixel update, judging by the leaks shared by Android Headlines.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Their 16-year-old had gone from being a naive gamer to converting to an extreme vision of Islam in a matter of months – and began judging the world through that dark prism.
    — Jeff Winter, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of judging

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“Gauging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gauging. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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