speculate
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Speculate about the future with regard to the issue.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Lasser first got to know Drake’s work when he organized “To Speculate Darkly,” a 2010 show at the Milwaukee Museum of Art by the Chicago artist Theaster Gates, inspired by Drake’s pottery.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021
Speculate all you want about who’s responsible, but neither idea had much appeal to begin with, outside of maybe a few niche users.
From Time • Mar. 20, 2014
Speculate, spek′ū-lāt, v.i. to look at or into with the mind: to consider: to theorise: to traffic for great profit.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Speculate on, good my Lord! provided you ground no part of your politics on such unsteady speculations.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Common Senses: Spec, Spect, Spic ("Look")
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