speculate (about)

verb

Definition of speculate (about)next
as in to fixate (on or upon)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speculate (about)
  1. reason
  2. believe
  3. conclude
  4. analyze
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  • The court reasoned, based on Lemon, that the nativity scene sent a message that the government was endorsing Christianity.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The original models of AI from as early as the 1980s all put an agent at its core: a learning agent, a reasoning agent, a search agent.
    Korok Ray, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of reason
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  • Police located the car at the intersection of Fulton Street and Washington Avenue, and the car took off once the driver, a woman believed to be the mother of the baby, noticed a police car.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The suspect caught a cab around 7 a.m. on the Upper West Side and was seen on video at an uptown bus station about 45 minutes later, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, adding police believe the suspect had left the city.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of believe
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  • Sign up By combining data from both studies, it was concluded that early humans and Neanderthals reached their peak interbreeding period around 47,000 years ago.
    Justin Klawans, The Week US, theweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Denver District Judge David Goldberg concluded in a ruling issued Monday that Douglas County didn’t have standing to bring the action against the state.
    John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of conclude
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  • For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren in southwest England.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • There isn’t any need to analyze the details of Sunday’s 35-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, which dropped the Giants to 2-12 overall, 0-8 at home and matched a franchise record with nine straight losses.
    Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of analyze
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