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• She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
• He speculated that a ball falling through a hole at the equator would follow a corkscrew trajectory.
• We might speculate that those with dementia would be less willing to participate in a research project than the mentally fit.
• He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
• The latter instinct, I would speculate, is the ability of mammals to deny the self in favor of the herd. Hide this from Robin Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• Officials have speculated that he used informal Middle East money-transfer networks known as hawala, which are difficult to trace. Pakistan arrests man with militant ties who says he aided Times Square bomb suspect
• ‘The pulsations of the air, once set in motion by the human voice, continue into infinity’, and he went on to speculate about this constant movement of atoms.
• Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.
• And from the business point of view it is just merely wrong to abstractedly speculate that someone wants something. Russia's Sechin Defends Investment Climate
• Rochelle salt, isomorphous replacement and phase determination, metal crystals and pepsin crystals, and speculated about muscular contraction. Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules