speculative
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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
Newly discovered gold mines, he explained, go public, attracting speculative investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Gold is a bit trickier than copper since it’s more of a speculative bet and is not tied to industrial demand the way that copper is.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Stocks are forward-looking and can often be speculative.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
A scholar named Thomas Cole, however, published an ingenious speculative essay in 1991.2 Corax’s name—giving extra piquancy to the judge’s joke—means “crow” in Greek, and Cole starts out arguing from common sense.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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And Then There Were None
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