I can't speculate out loud anymore.
Nobody speculated out loud about what might have happened.
In both Washington and Moscow, those who hold or seek power like to speculate out loud on whether their country's very existence serves a higher, divine purpose.
Sec. of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's speculated out loud of possible links between Mexican drug cartels and Al Qaeda, and Undersecretary of the Army Joseph Westphal characterized organized crime in Mexico as an "insurgency," while openly raising the specter of US troops being sent in.
Sirius' Howard Stern made a strange comment yesterday that's causing people to freak out, speculating wildly till they pass out.
The school staff was nice enough, welcoming me as I signed my daughter out and speculating on what a treat it would be for her to have a bit of an early dismissal from school.
Prime examples of occasions when judicious selection of the truth is not just acceptable, but imperative, include delivering verdicts on anything anyone has made themselves, filling in the memory gaps surrounding a drunken night out and speculating on why someone has been dumped.
The Apple iPad – that tablet computer everyone was speculating about – is out, and publishers are hoping that Apple will can offer the same magic for the print world that it did for the music industry with iTunes.
$10,000 speculated in out-of-the-money Las Vegas Sands calls bloomed into more than $260,000.
"[I]nstead of speculating years out that some future Congress and White House may possibly, hopefully, eh-who-knows, take responsibility for today's budgetary selfishness and shortsightedness to do so.
