speculation

It was a formulation almost engineered to generate speculation.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

It is the first statement from the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican after weeks of speculation about his health, following his admission to hospital in mid-June.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The Possilpark incident was sparked by what Glasgow City Council and police called "entirely factually incorrect" online speculation that a care home was to be extended to house asylum seekers.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

As speculation about McConnell has swirled, Beshear has been inundated with questions regarding the senator’s absence.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

In the past this would have been a trivial enough remark, a kind of scholarly speculation.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Geely said it doesn’t “comment on rumors or speculations regarding potential partnerships.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

"For decades there has been speculations and different theories to explain these remarkable properties and one theory has been the existence of a critical point. Now we have found that such a point exists."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026

The path from these relatively reasonable speculations to nuclear apocalypse is, to say the least, another matter.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

“There were a lot of speculations, a lot of assumptions, and now we actually have a body of research that we can look at to speak in an informed way about this topic,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

I’d never seen a newspaper back home say such things about people possibly involved in crimes who hadn’t been arrested, but Mexican papers were quick to report speculations.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall