How to Use speculative in a Sentence

speculative

adjective
Definition of speculativenext
Synonyms for speculativenext
  • His conclusions are highly speculative.
  • The speculative streaming bubble burst in the spring of 2022.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • That’s a bit speculative, but the first five reasons are not.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The state was in the midst of a speculative land frenzy that was always threatening to go bust.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This is not the speculative stuff of red gowns and dystopian fiction.
    — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • Ross said such questions were speculative and not at issue in the case before the court.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The other options out there seem a bit speculative at this point.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In the ruling, the court held that the chain of causation asserted by the plaintiffs was too speculative.
    — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Since gold pays no income, speculative demand for it tends to rise when rates fall.
    — WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But while Netflix is still going to keep writing some big checks, the days of unchecked and speculative spending are very much over.
    — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the Jazz’s guard options are a bit more speculative.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Due to its often speculative nature, the most accomplished sci-fi movies can sometimes require a bit of work on the part of the viewer.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
  • New fees in Biden’s climate law may also have brought an end to speculative oil and gas leasing in Nevada.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Phoenix became the center of the speculative real estate boom that filled out the first years of the new millennium.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The more time Loeb has spent in the scientific borderlands, the more speculative his ideas have become.
    — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Southwire took a more than 1 million-square-foot building, which was started as a speculative project a year ago.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The latest rehab as a speculative office building took place just the future of the office and the business district started to look shaky.
    — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The court of public opinion shifted as a speculative narrative began to form around the case.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • But given the harm that cellphones can cause, that’s pretty speculative.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
  • And with a demographic crisis mounting, this has all the signs of a speculative bubble.
    — Bobby Miller, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The Need by Helen Phillips (2019) This novel reads like a fever dream of maternal speculative horror.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • Only one is linked to the speculative sector of the crypto economy.
    — Mark Lurie, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • As well as helping to address current risks, the technique could also help with more speculative ones.
    — Billy Perrigo/san Francisco, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • From cryonics to time travel, here are some of the (highly speculative) methods that might someday be used to bring people back to life.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • Proxy statements have reported CEO pay for eons, but the amounts are largely speculative.
    — Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Yields on both investment-grade and more speculative bonds are around their lowest levels this year.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Colas describes the Nasdaq Composite as the most speculative corner of the stock market right now.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Grantham didn’t blame current Fed Chair Jerome Powell alone for the current speculative bubble.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The two are in the process of founding their own speculative research and AI specialist agency at the service of other artists, designers and creators.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But to critics, the projects are too speculative and too susceptible to exaggeration.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

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