Thesaurus / speculative

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How to use speculative in a sentence

This is speculative, but it’s quite possible that Apple could become the number two mobile search engine.

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“These are speculative for sure, with a capital S,” says William Gabella.

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He 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 DIEGO

The 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 REVIEW

All to be taken for what they are—informed but utterly speculative proposals.

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We’re not seeing speculative briefs, it’s about sticking to your knitting.

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Her youthful vanity had its way in a mind too speculative, intelligent, observant, merely to be shocked.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

It 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 MACAULAY

It 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 SOUSA

Any lurking danger of too great speculative restlessness disappeared.