speculatein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
speculate as in: don't know, but I'll speculate
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Philosophers have speculated on the question for thousands of years.
speculated = thought and guessed without certainty
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We were speculating as to whether a president would have to resign after that kind of scandal.speculating = thoughtfully guessing
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One can only speculate about why Franz became so attached to McCandless so quickly, but the affection he felt was genuine, intense, and unalloyed. (source)speculate = guess
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Later the doctors would speculate that when Dad, Luke and Benjamin had wrestled Shawn to the ground—and he'd sustained a concussion—he was already in critical condition. (source)speculate = think about, wonder, guess or theorize
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There was speculation in his eyes, bright curiosity, but he did not press further. (source)speculation = thoughtstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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I had wondered about Aspen, but seeing as I was running late to one of Silvia's many lessons, I didn't really have a chance to speculate much. (source)speculate = think
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My own speculations were trite in comparison. (source)speculations = thoughts
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In one of the tabloid magazines they speculated on what I fed the girls for dinner. (source)speculated = wondered or guessed
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When conversation at our table reaches a lull, I hear every word they say. They are speculating about the ranks. (source)speculating = guessing or theorizing
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It might still work, Cedric speculates, feeling a welcome sense of closure.† (source)speculates = thinks, wonders, guesses, or theorizes
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Lederer's speculation was right! (source)speculation = guess or theory
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He felt as though all three of them had reached an understanding they didn't need to put into words; that each was waiting for some sign, some word, of what was going on outside Hogwarts — and that it was useless to speculate about what might be coming until they knew anything for certain. (source)speculate = think
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But by degrees the flood of music drove all speculations out of his mind. (source)speculations = thoughts
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Scientists knew from studying HeLa that cancer cells could divide indefinitely, and they'd speculated for years about whether cancer was caused by an error in the mechanism that made cells die when they reached their Hayflick Limit. (source)speculated = guessed or theorized
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speculate as in: speculate in the stock market
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She lost a fortune speculating in oil futures.
speculating = making risky investments
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She speculates in the stock market in areas of medicine in which she is expert.speculates = invests
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Only fifty miles from the limousines and exclusive tennis clubs and lush green fairways of Palm Springs, the west shore of the Salton Sea had once been the site of intense real estate speculation. (source)speculation = risky financial investment
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My blood runs cold when Peter talks about becoming a criminal or a speculator; of course, he's joking, but I still have the feeling he's afraid of his own weakness. ... Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. (source)speculating = profiting from only invested money
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Her father, a haberdasher on Seattle's First Avenue and a real estate speculator, frowned on Arthur, who seemed to him a lumberjack posing as a reporter, a man without prospects and unworthy of his daughter; nevertheless the two were married and settled down to the business of rearing children.† (source)speculator = someone who takes a risk for profit -- typically a financial risk
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These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon.† (source)speculators = people who take risk for profit -- typically financial risk
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She wore that gold chain for years, and every time I looked at it I had the same vivid flashback to my brief and ultimately successful career in gold speculation. (source)speculation = risky investment
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...a Rockefeller, whose wealth was amassed through unscrupulous speculations in crude petroleum; (source)speculations = investments
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I have a job, a career that demands blocks of time and a great deal of my attention. I can't simply put that into hiatus while I speculate on my chances of getting a manuscript published. (source)speculate = invest in a risky manner
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Father said that surveyors always knew about the good deals on land and could get rich speculating. (source)speculating = investing
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As he felt the king's pulse, Coictier assumed an air of greater and greater alarm. Louis XI. watched him with some anxiety. Coictier grew visibly more gloomy. The brave man had no other farm than the king's bad health. He speculated on it to the best of his ability. (source)speculated = tried to make profit
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That M. Danglars speculates, whereas he never does. (source)speculates = makes risky investments
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They moved to the neighboring town of Weslaco, a flat, square speculator's grid slapped down on the Valley floor.† (source)speculator = someone who takes a risk for profit -- typically a financial risk
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That it is a monument to the privilege of the nobility, the effeteness of the intelligentsia, and the predatory pricing of speculators.† (source)speculators = people who take risk for profit -- typically financial risk
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