Sentence examples for speculated without from inspiring English sources
But he speculated — without exactly saying so — that Mr. bin Laden must be on the Pakistan side of the border.
"We will get a cure before a vaccine," Dr. Stefano Vella of Rome, the president of the International AIDS Society, speculated without predicting when.
In the seventies, Jacques Cousteau speculated — without much hard evidence — that roughly a third of all life in the oceans had vanished.
A television reporter in Alabama did a segment in which a chemist speculated, without giving any evidence, that dispersants in seawater by a marina may have caused a sample to unexpectedly combust.
China's food industry is so poorly regulated that a food contractor for the United States Olympic Committee speculated (without evidence) that athletes eating local chicken pumped with high doses of drugs could test positive for banned performance enhancers.
Critics have speculated without any proof that Ms. Sun's grandfather, a senior official in the decades after the Communists came to power, and another relative, a former vice mayor of Beijing, had made the problem go away.
McCann is hesitant even to speculate without more research, but he tentatively offers two plausible explanations.
"We just do not know yet, and I don't want to speculate without the data," he says.
Without details about what is compromised and how (algorithms, companies/products, methodologies), people are left to wildly speculate without being able to effectively react.
Many in Myanmar speculate, without offering proof, that Ashin Wirathu is allied with hard-line Buddhist elements in the country who want to harness the nationalism of his movement to rally support ahead of elections in 2015.
"Without hard evidence," Mr. Wheatcroft insisted, "it is not unfair to speculate — without hard evidence, speculate is all we can do — on B-P's own fascination with boys and 'boyology.' In the absence of physical attraction, after all, most adult men find most adolescent youths a pain in the neck".
