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I would hazard

phrase/aɪ wʊd ˈhæzəd/

B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A hedging phrase used to offer a tentative guess or estimate one is not certain about.

I'd hazard that we're looking at a two-week slippage, though I'll confirm once I've spoken to the vendor.

Similar: I'd venture, I'd estimate

Topic: Business email & meetings in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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