speculative
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Japanese officials had tried to cool speculative activity by threatening to intervene, even using meetings with U.S. officials to discuss potential joint action.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
All of that, and the speculative melt-up of public equities, sure smacks of a bubble to me.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Sam Sacks finds that Ray Nayler’s novel is “skillfully sown with dramatic surprises” even as it straddles the divide “between the speculative and the plausible.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
That has left public small-cap indexes with a larger share of younger, less profitable and more speculative companies, Sagal said.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing speculative
Grade 9, List 1
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And Then There Were None
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