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
• For most voters, the risks of a shift in power are speculative.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 13 May 2022
• Any projection about the caliber of the team, even with James and Davis healthy, is still speculative.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• This is not the speculative stuff of red gowns and dystopian fiction.
  — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• Ross said such questions were speculative and not at issue in the case before the court.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2023
• For a speculative-grade bond index, the yield hit the highest level in 15 months at 4.1%.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• To me, the relevant hints still seem too speculative and loose.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Then the episode takes a turn towards speculative fiction, and the racial roles reverse.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2022
• The other options out there seem a bit speculative at this point.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• Clients are very curious about what all this is and what part of the market is speculative.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 25 May 2022
• Prices rose sharply, and all the conditions for a speculative bubble were in place.
  — Veena Jetti, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• In the ruling, the court held that the chain of causation asserted by the plaintiffs was too speculative.
  — Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• 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
• This is all speculative for now, in several senses of the word.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
• Due to the Moon in your speculative 5th house trining Venus in your sign, you may be drawn to a dicey opportunity.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022
• 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
• Phoenix became the center of the speculative real estate boom that filled out the first years of the new millennium.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• 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
• And the paths leading to the convergence of these three groups at this remote location are even more speculative.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
• The Northman is as off-the-rails, internal, and speculative as Eggers has ever been.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• In this fantasy and speculative fiction novel, the magical island of Chynchin is faced with challenges from afar and within the island.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 18 Oct. 2024
• Of course, all of this is speculative, and analysts say elections usually have only short-term impacts on markets.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024