speculation
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Malaysia’s 2027 budget comes amid speculation about an early election and higher oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Much of the online chatter focused on speculation about what punishment the students received.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
As speculation swirled about why employees at OpenAI and Anthropic were speaking so freely about their personal beliefs, Korbak jumped into the public discourse.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Lewis Hamilton has declared Frederic Vasseur as "the guy to lead us" two days after Ferrari made an unusual public statement backing their team principal after speculation over this position.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
This isn’t repeated as speculation or as part of the underwear invention, but as fact.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
The paper notes that Tehran has "categorically" rejected and strongly condemned the "malicious speculations", but adds that the exact nature of what happened near Fairford "remains unclear".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Extraterrestrial cosmologies descend from the philosophically Protestant speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine, each of whom posited a plurality of worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The address, filmed a month after his dismissal, ended speculations on Fedorov's future and ruled out his potential cooperation with the government.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
According to Page Six, the speculations about the romance caused a “feud” between Batula and Miller, who were particularly close in Season 10 of “Summer House.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
Because he lived before Darwin, his speculations about extraterrestrial life are innocent of the evolutionary perspective.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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