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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As junk bonds fueled a wave of hostile acquisitions, Boesky became the archetype of the savvy speculator, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in profits on takeover bets.
  — Greg Farrell, Fortune, 20 May 2024
• While water holders are inching closer to being the modern equivalent of the Dutch tulip, with speculators driving up prices, the main use of the cup remains holding water.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
• The town is actually no more than a collection of tents talked up by property speculators, but with the war between the states laying waste to the Southeast, those wagons keep on coming.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2024
• In fact, one winemaker stopped selling his 2003 vintage of Chateau le Puy after it was name-checked in the manga to discourage wealthy speculators and keep prices affordable.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024