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speculative

[spek-yuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv] / ˈspɛk yəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv /


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Yet the real winners of the April stock-market rebound — at least, so far — are in the smaller, and far more speculative camp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Yet the real winners of the April stock-market rebound — at least, so far — are in the smaller and far more speculative camp.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Newly discovered gold mines, he explained, go public, attracting speculative investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

China Daily’s reporting on the emotional economy also included warnings from scholars and commentators that emotional value is hard to measure consistently, creating room for price distortion, impulse buying, and speculative excess.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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