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