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The phrase "able to speculate about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capacity or capability to form theories or conjectures regarding a particular subject or topic.
Example: "The researchers were able to speculate about the potential outcomes of the experiment based on their preliminary findings."
Alternatives: "capable of theorizing about" or "able to conjecture regarding".
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While it would have been possible to test for a change in slope of the long-term trend with a piecewise linear approximation, we did not do this because issues of confounding by these types of time-varying covariates, which we are only able to speculate about, would limit the interpretability of any coefficient.
To date, researchers have only been able to speculate about the reasons for the apparent absence of this phenomenon in nonhumans, and it has not been possible to test hypotheses regarding the mechanisms underlying it.
Dave Smith, the current (and last) editor of the iteration you are now reading, says the Review "tends to go deeper into the past for historical context and is able to speculate about the future in a more relaxed way".
And so we are able to speculate about the case of a non-finite presence-in-absence by starting with but moving beyond the limits of the presence and absence we are familiar with in the realm of limited things.
Markus Kuhn, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge explains that time related bugs create interest partly because their consequences are unpredictable, but also because they are "not unexpected" and that people are able to speculate about what will happen when the fateful date arrives.
Franclot Graham and Ramarley's mother, Constance Malcolm, have only been able to speculate about what happened to their son.
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But he declined to speculate about why.
But it's actually getting interesting to speculate about now".
But what Fab still has to speculate about, is why.
"I wouldn't be able to speculate on that at this point," she told the Guardian.
Thus, researchers have only been able to speculate at how they navigated ancient waters.
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