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speculate

[spek-yuh-leyt] / ˈspɛk yəˌleɪt /




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Speculate about the future with regard to the issue.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Lasser first got to know Drake’s work when he organized “To Speculate Darkly,” a 2010 show at the Milwaukee Museum of Art by the Chicago artist Theaster Gates, inspired by Drake’s pottery.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

Speculate all you want about who’s responsible, but neither idea had much appeal to begin with, outside of maybe a few niche users.

From Time • Mar. 20, 2014

Speculate on, good my Lord! provided you ground no part of your politics on such unsteady speculations.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Speculate as I might, I could find no answer to the mystery, nor to the question, which was also unsolved, as to the queer malady of Brixton himself, which his physician diagnosed as jaundice.

From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)




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