Word Finder - speculates

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To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.

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To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.

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To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.

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To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.

To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.

What - Poliakoff essentially speculates - would have happened had the 1960s boom in television satire arrived a quarter of a century earlier...?

Paintings from the Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci have come under recent scrutiny through the popularity of the novel The DaVinci Code, which speculates that the art contains hidden messages about Christianity.

Often, the media speculates on whether or not a particular star is pregnant or not, and sometimes this comes with disastrous and embarrassing consequences, when the celeb in question turns out not to be pregnant at all.

Fox News speculates that 50 to 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep shortages.

He speculates a world in which virtic, unscrupulous strength of character, shall deal successfully with frailty.

Putting Sophie into a home offers the tantalizing prospect of a return to "normal life," Judith speculates.

Bray speculates that this rite may also have been performed in the Latin West but finds the evidence inconclusive.

The laborer's day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.