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
It speculated on the evolutionary origins of such thermogenesis and observed how it predominates in ancient lineages of flowering plants like magnolias and water lilies.
It is precisely by their capacity to engage the observer to speculate on the meanings of particular images — as well as the potential meanings constellated from clusters of images — that these chambers reveal their quintessence. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
They speculated that the gaps in the solar spectrum are the result of selective absorption by atoms in the Earth's atmosphere.
It has been speculated that it was in this bank that the left wing hit terrain, beginning the crash sequence.
We shall be enabled to speculate with security on the former extension of the land.
Large capitalists can invest in government bonds, or they can speculate in stocks and commodities whose price is soaring due to the inflation.
It was speculated that this novice dealer was cutting the cocaine he sold with amphetamine due to his existing belief that that is what he was supposed to do.
We may speculate too whether they will presage anything very different from what was said.
It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide.
We speculate as to what will happen to the characters in later years.
The frequency of mating, researchers speculate, is meant to stimulate egg release in the female.
It is probably idle to speculate about what that situation will be, but perhaps not unreasonable to point out that it could still be in some sort of equipoise.
Mechthild's use of metaphors drawn from courtly life led earlier commentators to speculate that she might have come from noble stock. RIDDLE ME THIS
Ellis boldly probes - and speculates about - such matters as Washington's formative experiences, romantic life, sources of wealth, and evolving repugnance toward slavery.
This might indicate a predisposition to elevated mood and mania, they speculate.
No one knew how he had ended up in Egypt in the first place—but it was speculated that he might have been among a number of East Germans that Nasser had recruited to help him build ground-to-ground missiles for the army. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
How the creature does this is unknown, but Mark Fricker of Oxford University, who is one of Dr Tero's colleagues, speculates that the forces generated by protoplasm pulsating back-and-forth through the multinuclear cell are interpreted and used to determine which routes to reinforce, and which connections to trim. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
More recently, several have speculated that, like bullwhips, such tails were meant to be noisemakers.
This leads me to speculate that behavioral state-related gene expression may be of essence in exploring the deep psychobiology of consciousness in therapeutic hypnosis.
We are left to speculate the girl is just a deadhead, and in her indecision, powers on, deciding to live in the future, never looking back.
Kahlan speculated that their irreverence was their way of reminding Richard that he had freed them and that they served only by choice. Soul of the Fire
I am aware of reports suggesting this death is the result of a suspected drugs overdose, but would like to re-emphasize that no post-mortem has yet been done and that it would be inappropriate to speculate on the cause of death," Metropolitan Police Superintendent Raj Kohli said. Amy Winehouse's Cause of Death Unknown; Autopsy to be Performed Monday
It is speculated that teachers reporting relatively high levels of stress and burnout, may employ coping strategies or have personality attributes that mediate their feelings of accomplishment.
I personally know very little about organ construction but I know enough to speculate that no amount of electronic wizardry is going to replace the physical sound and experience of the authentic pipes themselves. What is the Organ?
On the plus side was the intriguingly ornate solo piano part, with florid additions, one may speculate, to compensate for the thinner strings.
In the same paper I had speculated on the possible occurrence of acetylcholine in the animal body, and on its physiological significance if it should be found there; and had pointed out the extraordinary evanescence of its action, suggesting that an esterase probably contributed to its rapid removal from the blood. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
They further speculate about the reasons for which the soul entered the body and its relationship to the universe.
How cassowaries produce their deep ‘boom’ is unclear, though Mack and his team speculate that cassowary communication is linked to the tall casques, or horn-like crests, that rise from the bird's head.
More recently they have speculated that acid rain robs trees of this vital nutrient by leaching it from the soil and by mobilizing aluminum, which interferes with calcium uptake by roots.
A dissenting justice speculated on the content of the message conveyed by the gyrations of strip-club performers.
Dante doesn't say so, but he leaves us free to speculate that moneylenders continue to practice their trade in hell, lending money at interest to the damned.
Historians speculate about the outlaw's links to these works in stone but perhaps the real answers still lie hidden in those dark forest glades in the middle of Sherwood.
Dunbar speculates that a change in our ability to mentalize - sometimes also referred to as Theory of Mind - could be the new cognitive function to have facilitated this improved capacity for social communication. BRAINETHICS
It lets traders and investors speculate on the rate of fluctuation for US stocks.
There was a deep financial connection between the two: Both drew heavily on the willingness of investors to speculate in bonds.
Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on the back burner.
Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.
Some analysts have speculated that GM could face a downgrade of its credit rating to junk status.
If GR is becoming "dated," as Howard speculates it might be, this would be the reason, at least in my view. Postmodernism
In spite of a host of imponderables it is possible to speculate on the composition of some of the smaller properties.
He is adamant that this week he wants us to take immediate actions and clearly report what we see and do, rather than just speculate and make nebulous plans for the future.
The reasons there is such a problem now is that we removed government regulations causing a finical crises; and the GOP spent away our surplus on wars, and tax cuts to wealthy people who thn in turn speculated in assets expanding the bubble. Matthew Yglesias » Regulating Bubbles Away
At nearly six feet tall, Marcy must appear quite the giant, she speculated.
Quote: I'm going to speculate we cannot see/detect the gamma rays until they are so far out, because they are exceeding the speed of ligh World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today
The reader can speculate what will happen next.
It is interesting to speculate on some of the reasons for this kind of bad thinking.
Researchers speculate that the extra shut-eye may help reduce chronic stress—which has been implicated in heart disease—by giving workers a break from angst-ridden jobs.
He was saved from having to speculate when Cara came in through a tight patch of young balsam trees. NAKED EMPIRE
It is interesting to speculate what the consequences would have been for the curriculum if his view had prevailed.
Unfortunately, there is no nutritional data next to the Cordon Bleu so you can only speculate as to how they are preparing food.
Stephen Friar speculates that the wyvern entered British heraldry as the standard of the Roman cohort and later appeared as the "burning dragon" of Cadwallader (the origin of the red dragon of Wales).
Mechthild's use of metaphors drawn from courtly life led earlier commentators to speculate that she might have come from noble stock. RIDDLE ME THIS
No one can speculate on what he's thinking about.
Weak substrate binding and rapid efflux had been speculated as an important element in P-gp broad substrate specificity and its primary job of not allowing xenobiotics into the cell cytoplasm.
Would he be what he is if he hadn't speculated on the stock of exchange?
The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
But great will be the joy of that furacious individual, as he speculates in secret on the increased demand of his agonised public. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
In the same article a local chemist speculated that the site was already leaching radium and a biophysicist called the ground at the site, located on a fault line, ‘very unstable.’
We can speculate that the stone circles were used in some sort of pagan ceremony.
He likes to speculate on the stock market.
The researchers speculated that separation from parents might hinder the chances of forming intimate relationships as an adult.
Love would not speculate on why the numbers have decreased.
Lehman makes several accusations, such as an argument that Windschuttle doesn't understand the Aborigines ‘attachment to the land through its flora and fauna, and he speculates baselessly about Windschuttle's motivations.
We can only speculate as to this man's identity.
One speculates; the other not only states a rise as a certainty, it presents the fact unmoored from any other economic factors.
Who are you?" is Vic's big question to Montoya -- and it may, as has been speculated, lead to Montoya assuming the mantle of the Question -- but it could be applied to almost every major character in the series, either because of their emotional/spiritual crises (Ralph, Black Adam, Renee, Booster) or because of some literal physical transformation (John Henry's steel skin, Adam Strange's eyelessness, Mr. Mind's reported evolution). Week 20: Language Is a Virus from Outer Space
The development from Orfeo to those two masterpieces is astonishing, and one can only speculate from the composer's madrigals and sacred music how it all happened.
We speculated that the effects of surgical injury and anaesthesia might be as important as the use of cardiopulmonary bypass in causing impairment.
It's easy to speculate that he might have been allowed to escape the net because he knows too much about wrong-doing by others in the UN.
She hides from public view and the media speculate about her emotional state.
He shook his head; and I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive. The Urth of the New Sun
And the legions of other day traders who speculated on internet stocks are long gone.
That sufficed for terrestrial physics, and Galileo did not speculate about celestial physics as did Kepler.
Barnaby, quite unable to think, or to speculate on what would be done with him, had been lulled into a kind of doze by his regular pace; but his stopping roused him; and then he became aware that two men were in conversation under the colonnade, and very near the door of his cell. Barnaby Rudge
In a follow-up response article, I speculate a bit about why the Court often constitutionalizes property law rules into Fourth Amendment doctrine despite rejecting property as a formal guide.
They're bound to speculate on the identity of the person he was having the relationship with, surely? MUSIC FOR BOYS
The reader can speculate what will happen next.
You should only speculate with risk capital (money you can afford to lose).
We speculated that it could have been marinaded in soy sauce, because there was a lovely, salty tang to the skin.
Some speculate that libraries may become small-scale publishers by selectively transferring the flow of electronic information into print.
Astronomers speculate that M51's spiral structure is primarily due to its gravitational interaction with a smaller galaxy just off the top of this digitally sharpened image.
It has even been speculated that if a bolide had not seen out the dinosaurs, then they would have eventually evolved into a human-grade intelligent species.
Scientists will use intensity of the echoes to speculate about the nature of the surface.
Boucher refused to speculate when asked if the action could lead to the imposition of emergency or postponement of general elections in Pakistan.
On the plus side was the intriguingly ornate solo piano part, with florid additions, one may speculate, to compensate for the thinner strings.
The world will be so fundamentally different by 2050 that it's pretty pointless to speculate that far out.
It is hard to speculate about what York might have looked like today if there had never been a green belt, says Martin Grainger, principal development officer with City of York Council.
Some commentators speculate he also could ally himself with maverick retired Gen.
Perhaps it was this heightened emotionality that led Sigmund Freud to speculate that dreams serve as wish fulfillment.
That is their secret, and will remain so; it behoves us not to pry, only to speculate in passing.
Oliver speculated that sometimes when people who are driven to succeed are placed under unbearable stress and can't bring themselves to quit, they do something that forces them to quit.
I wouldn't really want to speculate on the level of naivety or lack of naivety.
Without much else to do, they speculate on when and with whom she will lose her virginity.
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While we can only speculate about his post-unauthenticated audio tape interviews, we can look at his post-DUI interview with Diane Sawyer. What Lindsay Lohan can learn from Mel Gibson and other celebrity lawbreakers
I can only speculate that exterior locations discourage this camera movement, since in practice it is usually accomplished by dollying out, which is easier to do on studio floors but would always require laying tracks in an exterior.
I can speculate about how I know about reality, but no bracketing of current empirical certainties is required.
The leaves might provide home fumigation, wood rat style, the researchers speculate.
At the present time we can only speculate about the implications of such ‘experience-dependent shaping of neuronal circuits’ for facilitating the deep psychobiology of therapeutic hypnosis.
Didn't philosophers speculate that, at some distant locus, all polarities fused? DOUBTING THOMAS
The new insurance rules speculate that the disabled for the public benefit are to receive more money.
Most observers speculated that De La Hoya's high - protein , low - carbohydrate diet was the culprit.
October is one of the most dangerous months to speculate in shares.
He speculated that this might lead to a success.
Rodda speculated that more sophisticated gear using high frequencies to "degauss" a croc's magnetic sensors - a process similar to erasing a music tape - could be more effective, but said magnets also could do the job. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
As we did not serotype these pneumococcal strains or measure antibodies to them, we cannot do more than speculate on the mechanism for this observation.
Also, they speculated that uranium perhaps could be harnessed to replace coal or oil as a fuel for industrial power plants.
Some authors have speculated that the trauma and increased infection related to sexual abuse may act as a trigger to developing lichen sclerosus, related to Koebnerisation, which is known to occur in this disease.
Of course one is tempted to speculate on the primordial sound that created the universe, the om, from which, in the Indian tradition, the whole of creation emanated.
The researchers speculate if they could genetically modify the bacteria to fluoresce when they purify the gold, the bugs could become something even more important: Microbial metal detectors.
I speculate that this is probably because magnox alloy, being non-radioactive, is harder to detect than uranium. ArmsControlWonk
Investment funds speculate on futures markets and help push up the price of commodities, including food commodities.
The Press was no better equipped than anyone to speculate in this way. AMAGANSETT
Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices.
He didn't say anything about his sexuality, but of course, we who hoped to sleep with him all speculated.
We speculate that the lack of bias in the present analysis is due to the large and well-balanced sibships created in this F 2 population structure.
might be the true effecter molecules," Wolpin speculates. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
Questions about some of the details to the extent they have been shared with us or we can reasonably speculate aboutthem ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
Fannie officials say they are in control of their risks and don't speculate with derivatives.
So you'd like to speculate on the stock market, but find the publicly quoted companies a bit too dry?
Since MMPs are zinc-dependent endopeptidases, we speculated that the reduction of BP7033Br ALK effect could be due to a reduction of available phosphonic acid groups able to chelate zinc and consequently inhibit MMPs. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
While the dustcart crept through ‘two-bin Bassett,’ tipping load after load of tins, cartons, newspaper and cardboard into its interior, residents speculated on the pros and cons of the scheme, which sparked a storm of protest.
And so we are able to speculate about the case of a non-finite presence-in-absence by starting with but moving beyond the limits of the presence and absence we are familiar with in the realm of limited things. Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
He speculated that Katherine therefore had fallen out of a shattered window, adding: ‘If she had been wearing a seatbelt, that wouldn't have happened.’
One can only speculate what magical chess we would have seen in matches with Karpov and Kasparov.
We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
Lehner speculates that the Eastern town housed skilled craftsmen, artisans, stone masons, quarrymen, overseers, and officials.
The actual night has no agreed upon origin, rather a cluster of speculated ones.
The finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has speculated that the price of a litre of petrol will jump from 65 naira 40 cents to 139 naira a litre. Nigerians are still the most optimistic people in the world. How? | Bim Adewunmi
While some intrepid individuals did speculate in currency futures, highly trained specialists dominated the pits.
A variation on this speculates that there may be countless random universes, among which ours is antecedently probable and therefore unremarkable, it needs no explanation.
The new insurance rules speculate that the disabled for the public benefit are to receive more money.
Interestingly, the melanin in fungi is no different chemically from the melanin in our skin, leading Casadevall to speculate that melanin could be providing energy to skin cells. 2007 May - Telic Thoughts
I was able to persuade them to borrow large sums of money and speculate.
This has led scientists to speculate on the existence of other galaxies.
Harte's _History of Gustavus_, a wilderness which mere human patience seems unable to explore, is yet enlivened here and there with a cheerful spot, when he tells us of some scalade or camisado, or speculates on troopers rendered bullet-proof by art-magic. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
One can also speculate that cubs emerging from dens in sub-optimal habitats would experience reduced survival.
A spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the train crash.
Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead.
This is not the place to speculate about possible alternatives.
Some economistshave gone so far as to speculate that the physiocrats would have been overjoyedat a policy of farm-price supports.
Its extreme isolation has led some researchers to speculate that it contains life forms unknown to science.
It is speculated that all the non-baryonic dark matter froze out even earlier – since it is not apparently affected by the energy densities still prevalent in the universe today (pardon the pun), while baryonic matter can still be affected by the energy densities prevalent in the universe today (e.g. baryonic matter can be ionised into plasma). What Can The (Dark) Matter Be? | Universe Today
In this case, the anchoring and hence the unfriendliness/inconvenience for speculation would also mean that the currency regime would become "metastable" as market hedging is more difficult -- but this is a minor inconvenience as one can still speculate/hedge even on a fixed peg e.g. non-deliverable forward for RMB Archive 2006-08-01
Though all too many Christians have strayed into that error over the centuries, most have not presumed to speculate about how crowded or uncrowded heaven will be. What Happened to Heaven and Is Gandhi There?
He was litigious, speculated cannily on the property market, hoarded grain in times of shortage and may have practised usury.
As we did not serotype these pneumococcal strains or measure antibodies to them, we cannot do more than speculate on the mechanism for this observation.
Although Charon is very small, and would not have much gravity to hold on to an atmosphere, it is so far from the sun and so cold that the researchers speculate some gases could yet be retained.
And, did it become popular to borrow in Euros to speculate in higher-yielding Mexican or Brazilian securities?
Running as part of an extensive magazine spread, the newspaper speculated that Foster was about to become Britain's first sidewalk surfing tycoon.
McGrady also speculated on "a banana flan" for dessert.
It is interesting to guess for oneself and to speculate upon the possibility of a kind of armoured mother-ship for waterplanes and submarines and torpedo craft, but necessarily that would be a mere journalistic and amateurish guessing. An Englishman Looks at the World
In the television studio various experts were wheeled out to analyse and speculate.
Researchers speculate that this results when ellagic acid forms adduct (from Latin, “drawn toward”) with DNA, thus masking binding sites to be occupied by the carcinogens. Phytonutrients Prevent Cancer
Mr. Blyth, who speculated on the origin of the name, in one of his able articles on the felines of India in the _India Sporting Review_ of April 1856, makes no allusion to the above nor to the probable confusion that may have arisen in the middle ages over the spotted Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
How many viruses, trojans, worms and crimeware lie undetected within our national infrastructure?, like so many Cold War sleeper agents, awaiting activation, is a matter we can only speculate about. Fighting Wars in Cyberspace
So I don't want to speculate that this is a breakthrough, but I think that we should always seize and look for every opportunity if there is some avenue that we can proceed to bring about a denuclearized North Korea. CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2009
In a bat's case, I have speculated, it might be surfaces of different echoic properties or textures, perhaps red for shiny, blue for velvety, green for abrasive. The God Delusion
The new insurance rules speculate that the disabled for the public benefit are to receive more money.
The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
Another possibility, he speculated, was that lubricant has congealed into a buttery texture, preventing it from being evenly spread among the gear's moving parts.
In closing, I speculate that writing such a book is an unenviable task; it just invites criticism.
It is possible to speculate that this system might enter a region of chaotic behavior in vivo.
Still, as one expository chapter follows another, with technically correct but rather dull repetitions of what has been said before, one begins to speculate about how to improve matters.
Scientists speculate that a giant asteroid hit Earth millions of years ago.
As Dermot has speculated, the government could introduce the mayors first, given them a trial run, then hold 'confirmatory' referendums to see if people in places like Manchester want to keep them or not. MEN Media Blogs
He set to work and made a good job of it, with a pledget of lint and strips of plaister, and meanwhile I speculated as to why, in all these bottles and jars and gallipots, neither nature nor art could contrive to store a drug magistral for the blow that had riven my heart asunder. The Yeoman Adventurer
That said, I wonder if you care to speculate on the function of the cotton crotch in pantyhose? I say pyjama…
As evolutionary theory became more widely accepted, natural scientists speculated that the cells of complex organisms might be the descendants of unicellular ancestors, retaining considerable autonomy.
philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
Cohen at first speculated that the attacker may have been ‘just blagging’ and that he was only visiting the area, but later admitted that this was unlikely.
Some speculated that it was, because there was limited evidence that another race had existed there once.
Army Major General R.K. Hooda, the commanding officer of Maharashtra state, cautioned reporters not to speculate on how long it would take for troops to end the siege by the heavily-armed gunmen.
As have others, Gaskell uses comparative studies of Razorbills and other alcids to speculate about the behavioral ecology of Great Auks.
Others might speculate that the genocide claimed 800,000 victims, or a million.
Here, too, was a place where I could freely speculate about Mary's album's complex meanings, unencumbered by the burden of historical proof.
Fischer speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
Interestingly, the melanin in fungi is no different chemically from the melanin in our skin, leading Casadevall to speculate that melanin could be providing energy to skin cells. 2007 May - Telic Thoughts
Well, at present we won't speculate on hypotheticals.
Thomas is forced to speculate as to the intent of the framers, since he concedes they likely never imagined the vast modern apparatus of federal agencies and their powers.
When the MoD was the sole source of information, the press could only speculate as to the veracity of its statements.
Horton refused to speculate, and so his dancers were forced to follow their own hunches in interpreting the characters.
It is legitimate to speculate about the Devil as long as we do not assume that our speculations have the solidity of holy writ.
Or the fact Florida high schools are permitted to conduct spring football camps that deliver him more finished products, they speculate.
I think as we are being envious, we should work even harder. We create our future, it doesn't come from luckiness, or speculate and manipulate for self-interest.
And lest we forget that whatever money is not used by the Illuminist banks that they have borrowed from the Fed at near zero interest to speculate with is parked with the Fed at 2.5% risk-free, a gift of the US taxpayer because we just love to get hosed by our criminal syndicates aka Canada Free Press
Police would not speculate on a motive, except to say that Avanesian had a long-running dispute with his wife.
Their estates and assets were seized for the imperial treasury, and one can only speculate on the possible consequences.
Stucky speculates that a synthetic material based on the worm's teeth might one day serve as an antifouling coating for ships' hulls.
A foreign policy that speculates and spies on enemies from afar has given rise to unintelligent intelligence, a profound ignorance about what is going on in the world.

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