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Definition
to guess without certainty
or:
to think about or consider something
or (more rarely):
to risk money in a financial venture
or:
to think about or consider something
or (more rarely):
to risk money in a financial venture
- there is no use speculating on that subject.Act 1 — Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street (11% in)
speculating = thinking or guessing
- ] Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.Act 1 — Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street (55% in)
- ] Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.Act 1 — Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street (55% in)
- To your work, child, these speculations are profitless.Act 2 — Garden at the Manor House (7% in)
There are no more uses of "speculate" in The Importance of Being Earnest.
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