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

Also on Monday, Japan’s top currency diplomat, Atsushi Mimura, intensified his rhetoric against speculative moves driving the yen’s sharp decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Overall, however, with gold down a fifth from its Jan. 28 peak, much of the deleveraging taken place and the speculative froth eliminated from positioning, Bruce is comfortable with his sizable weighting in gold.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

And rather than the 2026 World Cup, the revenue associated with co-hosting Euro 2028 was deemed to justify the speculative approach.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas