Thesaurus / speculative
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This is speculative, but it’s quite possible that Apple could become the number two mobile search engine.
IS APPLE GETTING REAL ABOUT SEARCH AND ABOUT TO TAKE ON GOOGLE?GREG STERLINGAUGUST 27, 2020SEARCH ENGINE LAND“These are speculative for sure, with a capital S,” says William Gabella.
COULD RIPPLES IN SPACETIME POINT TO WORMHOLES?EMILY CONOVERAUGUST 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSHe openly advocates that catching the coronavirus is a good thing, because healthy people will build up antibodies, a claim that is entirely speculative at this point.
SUPERVISOR BY DAY, BUT A COVID-19 SKEPTIC ON THE AIRWAVESKATY STEGALLAUGUST 20, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThe most recent numbers are speculative and from 2016, but they suggest that at the time, at least half of Americans had photos in a face recognition system.
THERE IS A CRISIS OF FACE RECOGNITION AND POLICING IN THE USTATE RYAN-MOSLEYAUGUST 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWAll to be taken for what they are—informed but utterly speculative proposals.
HOW LIFE COULD CONTINUE TO EVOLVE - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCALEB SCHARFAUGUST 12, 2020NAUTILUSWe’re not seeing speculative briefs, it’s about sticking to your knitting.
‘THAT INNOVATION BUDGET HAS GONE’: PUBLISHERS ADAPT TO THWARTED BRANDED CONTENT STUDIO GROWTHLUCINDA SOUTHERNAUGUST 4, 2020DIGIDAYHer youthful vanity had its way in a mind too speculative, intelligent, observant, merely to be shocked.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONIt was not a languid, speculative, preference of one theory of government to another, but a fierce and dominant passion.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYIt may be something; it may be nothing; but my speculative instinct has been aroused by a strange peculiarity in his playing.
THE FIFTH STRING JOHN PHILIP SOUSAAny lurking danger of too great speculative restlessness disappeared.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDWORDS RELATED TO SPECULATIVE
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- clouded
- contingent
- debatable
- dicey
- disreputable
- doubtable
- dubious
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fat chance
- fishy
- hazardous
- hazy
- iffy
- impugnable
- inconclusive
- indecisive
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
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- long shot
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- on thin ice
- open
- pending
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- touch-and-go
- touchy
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- abstracted
- astral
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- daydreaming
- excellent
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- fantastic
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
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- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
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- out of this world
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- preoccupied
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- relaxing
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- soothing
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- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
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- academic
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- casual
- concocted
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- contestable
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- debatable
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- indefinite
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- presupposed
- pretending
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- refutable
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- stochastic
- supposed
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- theoretic
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- uncertain
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- idealistic
- illogical
- impossible
- impracticable
- improbable
- inapplicable
- inefficacious
- infeasible
- inoperable
- ivory-tower
- no-go
- nonfunctional
- nonviable
- otherworldly
- quixotic
- romantic
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- unattainable
- unbusinesslike
- unfeasible
- unreal
- unserviceable
- unusable
- unwise
- unworkable
- useless
- visionary
- wild
- won't fly
- abstract
- absurd
- chimerical
- idealistic
- illogical
- impossible
- improbable
- inapplicable
- inefficacious
- infeasible
- inoperable
- irrealizable
- ivory tower
- no-go
- nonfunctional
- nonviable
- not a prayer
- otherworldly
- out of the question
- quixotic
- romantic
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- starry-eyed
- theoretical
- unattainable
- unbusinesslike
- unfeasible
- unreal
- unserviceable
- unusable
- unwise
- unworkable
- useless
- visionary
- wild
- won't fly
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