speculator

Example Sentences

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"He's a speculator, he buys and sells," they told me.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Duer was also an inveterate speculator and get-rich-quick schemer: “king of the alley,” as Thomas Jefferson derisively referred External link to Wall Street.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

Railroad magnate and speculator Jay Gould was dubbed “the Mephistopheles of Wall Street” by ministers on the pulpit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Fisk, a Wall Street speculator, was fabulously wealthy.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

But one day a speculator came by—you know what a speculator was?”

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers