How to Use speculator in a Sentence

speculator

noun

• The true crime speculators need to stay away and let the police do their jobs.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• In fact, the men were once in the same social status as oil speculators.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2024
• Videogames have emerged as an answer—if only they could get rid of the speculators.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
• That has forced the speculators to sell assets — first in Japan, and now just about everywhere.
  — Ron Insana, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
• New York banks would lend funds to stock speculators to earn a return on those deposits.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024
• In one home lived speculators willing to manage tenants—and to evict them.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Nicola Erni: There were always speculators in the art world.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• Back in the early 2000s, housing speculators assumed the best bang for their buck would be in fast-growing Sunbelt cities.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Were speculators to stop trading, companies on Main Street, not Wall Street, would suffer the most.
  — Blake Clayton, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2012
• And, true to form, pop culture addicts and crypto speculators have driven that memecoin’s price up—a lot.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
• Unlike Wolf and Marinakis and his investors, Kokalias wasn’t a speculator.
  — Haru Coryne, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2020
• The plan would hike taxes on those parcels by about 185%, which is expected to hold land speculators more accountable.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
• Throughout his more than 75-year career, Munger argued that there were two types of people who buy shares in the stock market: investors and speculators.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• There is no fairness in taxing the salaried man and the merchant upon their incomes and taxing at far lower rates the profits on the capital of the speculator.
  — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• The waterway would make Chicago the epicenter of trade in the Midwest, and speculators bought up parcels then resold them for enormous profit.
  — Andrew Johnston, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2024
• But the play-to-earn games were played mostly by speculators instead of traditional gamers.
  — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• There are plenty of speculators willing to jump aboard an uptrend.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• The speculator may then choose to fix and flip that property yet again for another profit, or rent it out as a longer-term investment.
  — Kevin Hardy, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
• Lee said the changes would balance the rights of long-term property owners who want to retire from the rental business with protections against speculator abuse.
  — Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2021
• At the end of the nineteenth century, land promised to farmers in the West was gobbled up by banks, railroads, speculators, and cattle companies.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• This past spring, more than one gallerist said that with so many speculators having fled, the collectors who’ve remained in the game are the ones who care about the art, not the investment value—the ones who buy with their eyes, not their ears.
  — Kate Dwyer, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• That’s a sign speculators are seeking to profit from a mismatch in pricing between Treasury futures and the cash market.
  — Sonali Basak, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• One was made up of the hippies and commune dwellers (my parents were both) who opposed what was then called displacement and vilified speculators.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• During the digital land rush of 2021, speculators were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a plot in each metaverse.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 10 June 2023
• Then the financial speculators began to pile in — betting prices would rise further.
  — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• Still, for all the uncertainty, three data points may help the armchair Nobel Prize speculator.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2021
• Deutsche, long Donald Trump‘s bank of choice for his business dealings, is an obvious candidate for speculators to short, or bet against its stock.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• SpaceX doesn’t announce test timing, and the silence spawned a speculator’s paradise on social media.
  — Brandon Lingle, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• Those who would be hit the hardest include land speculators who own vacant lots across the city, owners of empty and derelict buildings, scrapyards and auto salvage yards in the city and parking lot owners.
  — Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• So long as there is an ample supply of speculators willing to trade the tokens, flush zombie blockchains will continue to roam the digital landscape.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024