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be speculative
adjective
Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
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Be speculative A speculative approach is particularly good if you're changing career or sector.
"Anything about his condition for opening day I think right now would be speculative," Alderson said.
Any choice you make concerning the vice-presidential bounce is inherently going to be speculative.
At the same time, it would be speculative to suggest that her deceptions were readily observable".
Although any attempt at explanation is bound to be speculative, the following may be suggested.
You have to go out and be speculative, send off speculative letters and emails, see if there are volunteering opportunities.
Physical descriptions of the meteorite have to be speculative, because most of it vaporized or melted on impact.
To reach the "inner meaning" of history, the historian had to be "speculative" and give "subtle explanations" of causes.
Freshly returned from Vietnam, where the Tet offensive had just ended, Cronkite offered what he called "an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective".
But, he added, "in an unfolding situation, we don't want to be speculative or pretend that we have exact or precise information".
Mr. Reeves said that the Long Island University trustees remain committed to the conference, and that any discussion beyond that would be speculative.
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