speculative
Example Sentences
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Historical “bucket shops” serve as a parallel, demonstrating how unregulated speculative trading led to market manipulation and eventual crackdowns.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
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 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
Many of them sat languidly along the benches or milled in the aisles discussing the trial in hushed and speculative tones.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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