speculative
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Products like options and leveraged ETFs allow investors to place speculative bets using their brokerage accounts, Cornell said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
There are even early suggestions that vitamin C may help the immune system recognize and attack tumors, though this remains speculative.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Axon Enterprise plunged 14% to $522.46 even after the maker of Taser guns and drones posted earnings above the Wall Street peg, giving back some of the speculative gains ahead of its earnings report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
An MoJ spokesman told the paper the figure was "speculative".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act V
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And Then There Were None
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