Synonym: chance, conjecture, consider, contemplate, deliberate, gamble, guess, meditate, reflect, risk, study, theorize, venture. Similar words: speculation, spectacular, calculate, articulate, secular, calculation, regulate, stimulate. Meaning: ['spekjəleɪt /-jʊl-] 
v. 1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds 2. talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion 3. reflect deeply on a subject 4. invest at a risk.
v. 1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds 2. talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion 3. reflect deeply on a subject 4. invest at a risk. 
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91. Business gossip columnists speculate endlessly on who will emerge as the old man's successor.
92. It's never wise to speculate about the meaning of dreams, so she didn't.
93. It is generally not useful to speculate that such time-removed antecedents are associated with bad behaviour.
94. There is still much speculation as to what happened but at least nowadays people can speculate out loud.
95. One can only speculate about how a genuinely independent and effective complaints authority would be received.
96. To argue this point is to speculate beyond our data on national and local competence.
97. Some commentators speculate he also could ally himself with maverick retired Gen.
98. Well, at present we won't speculate on hypotheticals.
99. Netizens speculate it could be Christy Chung.
100. Can you speculate how such damage might arise?
101. Chou Hou-ch'ing sure knows how to speculate and do business. His Golden Touch Bank has really prospered. Eldest Brother was a fool to break with him!
102. This possible relationship has led some researchers to speculate that the earliest cheetahs may have originated in North America and traveled across the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia .
103. While some intrepid individuals did speculate in currency futures, highly trained specialists dominated the pits.
104. Investment funds speculate on futures markets and help push up the price of commodities, including food commodities.
105. More rewarding is to speculate about how art opened Monet to Japan.
106. He shed a tear when he announced that President John F. Kennedy, indeed, had died,(http://sentencedict.com/speculate.html) though Cronkite resisted the temptation to speculate until the word was official.
107. Some observers speculate that the big companies have influence over IV's decisions about what companies to sue.
108. Unfortunately, there is no nutritional data next to the Cordon Bleu so you can only speculate as to how they are preparing food.
109. To sum up, do not drink, do not smoke, do not indorse, do not speculate.
110. One can either hedge or speculate in the spot market for foreign exchange.
111. We can then speculate that a lot of gunk collects on shark pelvises as they go about their daily business.
112. Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices.
113. Officials with the group, known by its French acronym MSF, declined to speculate on a motive for the attack.
114. We speculate that the fatal effect was primarily due to the overdose of verapamil.
115. Economists also speculate that Portugal could get some kind of stand-by facility, which would suffice to calm markets, but which may never be actually used by Lisbon.
116. Although researchers can only speculate that domoic acid caused this historic event, modern toxicologists have conclusively linked the toxin to more recent cases.
117. Researchers speculate that the extra shut-eye may help reduce chronic stress—which has been implicated in heart disease—by giving workers a break from angst-ridden jobs.
118. Some economists speculate that effort will include a program of buying long-term U. S. Treasury bonds, intended to ease borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
119. Previously, primates had exhibited right-hand preferences in captivity but no handedness in the wild, leading scientists to speculate that they became lateralized through interacting with humans.
120. Why permIt'such a criminal to sit about and speculate on some plan of escape?
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