speculative

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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

Having just raised $122 billion in new funds at a valuation of $852 billion, OpenAI can probably afford a few speculative gambles.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

However, it is in the volatile, frothy and speculative stock market, dominated by retail traders, where the most damage has been inflicted.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Japan’s top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura warned of “decisive action” against speculative moves driving the yen’s decline near 160 to the dollar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

But his cosmological arguments are purely speculative and philosophical.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton