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speculative

[spek-yuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv] / ˈspɛk yəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv /


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At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

However, this speculative process can lead to selling in shares of companies that don’t end up getting chosen.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Yet junk bonds might prove more resilient than their loan peers in the speculative credit market in rocky times ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Candless studied the map, then looked at Nailer, speculative.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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