speculation
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He also rejected speculation that the party would split and he would head a breakaway party: "Tenants leave, homeowners are to stay."
From BBC • May 22, 2026
The rampant speculation has been fueled by an army of commentators and market influencers online.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Share performance has been driven largely by hype and speculation ahead of the achievement of major technological milestones expected by the end of the decade.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
The incident has been subject of speculation in the Spanish media since March last year when the local judge overseeing the investigation reopened the probe to give police more time to gather evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
One man who took such apocalyptic speculation seriously was Leo Szilard, the energetic and resourceful Hungarian physicist who had tried to patent a prototypical cyclotron just before Lawrence’s practical invention.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing speculation
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