speculative enterprise

Example Sentences

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The firm never really embraced that kind of speculative enterprise again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2021

This speculative enterprise always has an element of a lottery.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2013

Kyser drew $100,000 net profit from the highly speculative enterprise with only the $5,000 weekly salary of his band to be deducted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

It is that certain men possess a kind of sixth sense in the realm of speculative enterprise.

From Success (Second Edition) by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron