speculates

present tense third-person singular of speculate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for speculates
Verb
  • That forecast assumes tariffs go up by 15 percentage points — a huge number, but still short of the 20 percentage-point increase that's in place as of Wednesday.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Her budget proposal presented to the board March 26 aims for an average increase to teacher supplements of 5% and assumes a state salary increase of 3%.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The guess here is that this will all unravel much faster than anyone currently thinks, leaving the country, and its new government, adrift and voters counting the days to the midterm elections.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Prasad, for instance, thinks there’s a kind of egalitarianism that’s inherent in English and missing from its Indian alternatives.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Misty imagines sitting on a toilet and using real toilet paper.
    Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Tim, Victoria, and Piper The episode begins with an obnoxious fake-out where Tim imagines killing himself, before sending most of the Ratliffs, save Saxon, off to the monastery so Tim and Victoria can have a look around this place where their daughter intends to live for at least a year.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
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