Speculate can be categorized as a verb.
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| speculate - to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" | ||
| speculate - 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; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal" | ||
| speculate - invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" | ||
| speculate - reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" |
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| 1. | verb | I wouldn't want to speculate. | |
| 2. | verb | Would you care to speculate? | |
| 3. | verb | I can only speculate. | |
| 4. | verb | I'm not going to speculate. | |
| 5. | verb | It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action. | |
| 6. | verb | As to what happened there, one can only speculate. | |
| 7. | verb | Some speculate that unknown and mysterious forces account for the unexplained disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle, such as extraterrestrials capturing humans for study; the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis; vortices that suck objects into other dimensions; and other whimsical ideas. | |
| 8. | verb | The filmmakers can only speculate why McQueen, who struggled with drug addiction, took his life. | |
| 9. | verb | Sami didn't want to speculate. | |
| 10. | verb | I don't want to speculate. | |
| 11. | verb | The houses become a way for average Americans to get financial leverage, which can multiply their returns. There's no other way for Americans to get access to financial leverage outside of houses. You can't do it in the stock market if you’re just a normal person, and so this is a way to basically speculate in housing. | |
| 12. | verb | Locals speculate the empty streets of the usually busy tourist town drew the goats in. | |
| 13. | verb | I can speculate all I want about the nature of the universe and "reality," but such would be just speculation. I can say that our reality is like a computer simulation. I can say that our reality is like a hologram. I can say that our reality is like a dream. There are many more I-can-say's. They are speculations. As humans, we are like rabbits in that even if higher beings were to tell us the truth, we still might not understand. | |
| 14. | verb | We can only speculate about Tom's motive. | |
| 15. | verb | "Shirley, some speculate that instead of space vessels, it may be teleportation as the way to go into space." "Miraculous, Glen." |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| I wouldn't want to speculate. | |
| Would you care to speculate? | |
| I can only speculate. | |
| I'm not going to speculate. | |
| It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action. | |
| As to what happened there, one can only speculate. | |
| Some speculate that unknown and mysterious forces account for the unexplained disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle, such as extraterrestrials capturing humans for study; the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis; vortices that suck objects into other dimensions; and other whimsical ideas. | |
| The filmmakers can only speculate why McQueen, who struggled with drug addiction, took his life. | |
| Sami didn't want to speculate. | |
| I don't want to speculate. | |
| The houses become a way for average Americans to get financial leverage, which can multiply their returns. There's no other way for Americans to get access to financial leverage outside of houses. You can't do it in the stock market if you’re just a normal person, and so this is a way to basically speculate in housing. | |
| Locals speculate the empty streets of the usually busy tourist town drew the goats in. | |
| I can speculate all I want about the nature of the universe and "reality," but such would be just speculation. I can say that our reality is like a computer simulation. I can say that our reality is like a hologram. I can say that our reality is like a dream. There are many more I-can-say's. They are speculations. As humans, we are like rabbits in that even if higher beings were to tell us the truth, we still might not understand. | |
| We can only speculate about Tom's motive. | |
| "Shirley, some speculate that instead of space vessels, it may be teleportation as the way to go into space." "Miraculous, Glen." | |