speculator
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"He's a speculator, he buys and sells," they told me.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
A speculator with access to reasonably priced storage could have made a guaranteed profit by buying 1,000 physical barrels cheaply and immediately selling a contract expiring months later.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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
Next came Highway 80 and speculator Bert Vaughn, who built a four-story hotel, bathhouse and a desert view tower to lure San Diego-Arizona drivers off the road.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
But one day a speculator came by—you know what a speculator was?”
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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