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US
/ˈspɛkjəˌɫeɪt/
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[ UK /spˈɛkjʊlˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /spˈɛkjʊlˌeɪt/ ]
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invest at a risk
I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating -
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps -
talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal -
reflect deeply on a subject
philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
I mulled over the events of the afternoon
How To Use speculate In A Sentence
- 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
