speculative
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They are highly speculative, highly volatile and highly leveraged.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
His vision was rendered in neat, compact handwriting and precise, spare line drawings that made clear this wasn’t speculative theory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Many of the latest breakthrough drugs trace their origins to research efforts that initially looked unprofitable or speculative.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
China Daily’s reporting on the emotional economy also included warnings from scholars and commentators that emotional value is hard to measure consistently, creating room for price distortion, impulse buying, and speculative excess.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
There is a plausible and quite persuasive answer to the second question, which will then lead us to a plausible but more speculative answer to the first.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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And Then There Were None
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