speculative

Example Sentences

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Experts recommend focusing on solid, long-term investments rather than speculative ones, rebalancing portfolios to include diverse sectors.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 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

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

Also on Monday, Japan’s top currency diplomat, Atsushi Mimura, intensified his rhetoric against speculative moves driving the yen’s sharp decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

For most workers, the only time in the last three decades when the rise in hourly pay beat inflation was during the speculative bubble of the 1990s.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times