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zaarathelab
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I read somewhere that the ESTIMATE can be used in two forms -
1) With ANY INFINITIVE : TO BE/TO HAVE
2) with THAT (Zaara estimates that only 1% of the students...blah blah
Experts on many forums have said that ESTIMATE + AT is wrong. However, when I googled it, on https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/estimate, ESTIMATE AT qualifies as correct idiomatic usage.
I saw this problem on GMATPREP:
With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Farenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water though to be frozen from top to bottom.
ESTIMATE AT is in the non-underlined part.
What is the correct usage of ESTIMATE?
1) With ANY INFINITIVE : TO BE/TO HAVE
2) with THAT (Zaara estimates that only 1% of the students...blah blah
Experts on many forums have said that ESTIMATE + AT is wrong. However, when I googled it, on https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/estimate, ESTIMATE AT qualifies as correct idiomatic usage.
I saw this problem on GMATPREP:
With surface temperatures estimated at minus 230 degrees Farenheit, Jupiter's moon Europa has long been considered far too cold to support life, and with 60 square miles of water though to be frozen from top to bottom.
ESTIMATE AT is in the non-underlined part.
What is the correct usage of ESTIMATE?
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