Friends speculated he might have a secret apartment.
Friends speculated on social media that Heitmann had struggled with mental-health issues before the incident.
His family and friends speculate he was fearful of something, but they don't know what.
All those characteristics, his friends speculate, probably played a role in the court's decision.
Friends speculate that he might be an effective Senator, though Bennett, a registered Democrat in North Carolina, lacks a clear political base.
Some of her relatives and friends speculated that she was motivated by anger at seeing many Palestinians wounded and killed during the 16-month-old conflict with Israel.
A couple of Denton's friends speculated to me that the breakup had been a contributing factor in his decision to coöperate with this profile, in the interest of projecting emotional availability.
It was perhaps to cement that new bond, some friends speculated, that the four boys set out toward the water's edge on Friday night, oars over their shoulders and a guitar in hand.
After his death, friends speculated that he had been working too hard, but an alert investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stanley Sporkin, grew suspicious, noting that people don't just "drop out of windows for no reason".
After his death, friends speculated that he had been working too hard, but an alert investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stanley Sporkin, grew suspicious, noting that people don't just "drop out of windows for no reason". Black, it emerged, had become embroiled in a bribery scheme.
