speculative
Example Sentences
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Even lesser-known stocks are reaping the benefits from speculative trading, too, as AI excitement spreads.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
"No specific findings have been shared with us to date. As such, it would be speculative for us to comment on any allegations," the company said.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Sam Sacks finds that Ray Nayler’s novel is “skillfully sown with dramatic surprises” even as it straddles the divide “between the speculative and the plausible.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
That has left public small-cap indexes with a larger share of younger, less profitable and more speculative companies, Sagal said.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
The Voyager spacecraft are the lineal descendants of those sailing-ship voyages of exploration, and of the scientific and speculative tradition of Christiaan Huygens.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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And Then There Were None
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