How to Use speculative in a Sentence

speculative

adjective

• His conclusions are highly speculative.
• The speculative streaming bubble burst in the spring of 2022.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• That’s a bit speculative, but the first five reasons are not.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• The state was in the midst of a speculative land frenzy that was always threatening to go bust.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Ross said such questions were speculative and not at issue in the case before the court.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2023
• The other options out there seem a bit speculative at this point.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• Since gold pays no income, speculative demand for it tends to rise when rates fall.
  — WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
• But while Netflix is still going to keep writing some big checks, the days of unchecked and speculative spending are very much over.
  — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, the Jazz’s guard options are a bit more speculative.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2023
• Due to its often speculative nature, the most accomplished sci-fi movies can sometimes require a bit of work on the part of the viewer.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• New fees in Biden’s climate law may also have brought an end to speculative oil and gas leasing in Nevada.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The more time Loeb has spent in the scientific borderlands, the more speculative his ideas have become.
  — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Southwire took a more than 1 million-square-foot building, which was started as a speculative project a year ago.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• The latest rehab as a speculative office building took place just the future of the office and the business district started to look shaky.
  — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
• And with a demographic crisis mounting, this has all the signs of a speculative bubble.
  — Bobby Miller, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022
• The Need by Helen Phillips (2019) This novel reads like a fever dream of maternal speculative horror.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 June 2023
• Proxy statements have reported CEO pay for eons, but the amounts are largely speculative.
  — Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• Yields on both investment-grade and more speculative bonds are around their lowest levels this year.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
• Colas describes the Nasdaq Composite as the most speculative corner of the stock market right now.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
• Grantham didn’t blame current Fed Chair Jerome Powell alone for the current speculative bubble.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
• But the city is looking at its highest bond rating since 2009 when the city's rating fell to speculative status amid its financial woes.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• Funding gaps widened, services declined, and speculative financial schemes rushed to fill the breach.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• But after 14 years of bubbles and scams, it's become clear that crypto is merely a speculative asset, something to buy in the hope that someone else will buy it for more.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Feb. 2023
• The theater piece is a speculative mythology about a pre-colonial African village.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Over the last two years, despite the city’s approval, the development of a speculative office campus in the Bay Area has become unviable.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• In their response to the earlier complaint in the case, filed in February, attorneys for the Sheriff’s Office said the claim that Mitchell had been placed in a freezer was speculative and false.
  — al, 20 Mar. 2023
• At least, that’s what happened in the wildly speculative 1996 sci-fi film Independence Day.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2023
• The way Hossenfelder sees it, having a basket of speculative theories is no better than having just one.
  — Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• The divorce news follows speculative reports that Millepied had an affair.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
• As for the impact of lobstering on whales, Mr. Lieberman writes: The threat is almost entirely speculative.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024