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I can certainly speculate: Some people want a simple story of good and evil.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

The full extent of Tesla’s plans is unclear, leaving analysts and investors to speculate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

So while it is great fun to speculate — is it just another example of rich folk fleeing California’s high taxes?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

"You will find out like ever other journalist and the public when we announce who the new health minister will be. I'm not going to speculate," he answered.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

This poor record of achievement has led scholars to speculate that the internal structure of the brains of these Sapiens was probably different from ours.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

He speculates that tariffs and inflation related to the war in Iran have played major roles in increasing travel expenses from $50,000 to at least $60,000 in one year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

News coverage speculates about a "new tone" from the president.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

A raid to seize the enriched uranium, in what Kavanagh speculates is an attempt to “embarrass” Iran into submission, the operation would face a slew of problems.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

Cardillo speculates that the conflict won’t last long, limiting the downside in silver and gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Berkner speculates that this is what happened to the great reptiles; their size may have been all right for a richly oxygenated atmosphere, but they had the bad luck to run out of air.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

This is far less than the hundreds of billions being speculated ahead of the trial.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Some speculated his success came from useful close relationships, including with the brother of former premier Wen Jiabao.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Analysts have speculated for months that Apple could be one of the most resilient Big Tech names.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Freud speculated that the “oceanic feeling” of religious ardor replicated the love that infants feel for their mothers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Physicists have speculated that two of these stretched-out singularities might be linked with a tunnel: a wormhole.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Putin's meeting with Pezeshkian comes days after the CIA's director John Ratcliffe made a rare trip to Moscow, with US media speculating he could have discussed Ukraine and Iran with his Russian counterparts.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

One is speculating in public about a woman’s health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I find that question pretty offensive, frankly, when people start speculating about my death and my health,” he told a Swiss newspaper at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Intrigued by the vague mixture of menace and nostalgia that the image evoked, internet users began sharing stories and speculating that the Backrooms is a hidden dimension into which people might accidentally find themselves.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

No good and much ill could come from boys worrying too much about whatever Royal Brougham at the Post-Intelligencer or George Varnell at the Seattle Times might be speculating about on any given day.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown