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• But, beyond gross morphologic observations this is purely speculative and not tested by studies in cobblestoned monolayers.2005, Carolyn E Patterson, Perspectives on lung endothelial barrier function. From the entry cobblestoned
• This speculative application by guides may result in more guided use being assigned than actually demanded.2001, John Day River Proposed Management Plan, page 332. From the entry speculative application
• If launches are limited in the future, speculative application by guide services could displace non-commercial users.2001, John Day River Proposed Management Plan, page 332. From the entry speculative application
• Fears of speculative attack on the Hong Kong dollar and Chinese Yuan also remerged.1998 June 11, “Plunging Japanese yen pulls down world markets”, in The Indian Express. From the entry remerged
• Therefore the speculative sciences must be divided according to differences of speculable objects, precisely as such.1997, An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry speculable
• This rather speculative explanation of a most important characteristic feature of Axial Age civilizations might be questioned.1986, Hermann Kulke, “The Historical Background of India's Axial Age”, in Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, editor, The Origins and Diversity of Axial…. From the entry Axial Age
• There are at least two principal ways to write speculative fiction—write about people, or write about gadgets.1947, Robert A. Heinlein, On the Writing of Speculative Fiction. From the entry speculative fiction
• Stephenson is one of speculative fiction’s most meticulous architects, and here he’s got sheets and sheets of blueprint.2021 November 16, Omar El Akkad, “Neal Stephenson’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry speculative fiction
• Any explanation is speculative, but might relate to the fact these are first time and not recurrent SF.2015 September 3, “Altered Calcium and Vitamin D Homeostasis in First-Time Calcium Kidney Stone-Formers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry normocalciuric
• It’s uneven and full of speculative dot ­connecting.2014 July 25, Wesley Morris, “Marlon’s Method”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry dot connecting
• Even among most nano-savvy scientists and physicians, Freitas’ ideas are too far off, too speculative to merit serious consideration.2012, Josh Schonwald, The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food, HarperCollins, page 273. From the entry nanopunk
• Lyotard sometimes refers to grand narratives as "speculative apparatus".2006, Philip Higgs, Jane Smith, Rethinking Truth, 2nd edition, Juta & Co., page 115. From the entry grand narrative
• And let it be a warning to you, Parkinson, not to invest your savings in speculative railway deferreds.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry deferred
• As a consequence, the meanings attributed to them are exclusively based on the proposed Basque etymologies and therefore speculative to the extreme.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 19. From the entry Benennungsmotiv
• P&G's speculative side-bet was responsible for virtually all of its losses, and the devil was definitely in the details of this transaction.2018, John Marthinsen, Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives. From the entry side bet
• The above is worth remembering as the presidential race turns the corner into its most feverishly speculative, excessively breathless phase: the veepstakes.2012 April 2, Frank Bruni, “And now, the veepstakes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry veepstakes
• He tries to correct this unsight in the second stanza, asking a series of speculative (and rhetorical) questions about his cousin's life.2012, Gregory Tate, The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870. From the entry unsight
• The worldhood of the world is not comprehensible in the terms developed by speculative reason for the comprehension of present-at-hand objects and their properties.2005, Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time. From the entry worldhood
• Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings, tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.2002, Mike Crang, Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space, page 178. From the entry sundering
• Cosmological, speculative meaning without the appended avenues for achieving it in real life, would at least be extremely frustrating and at worst appear totally nonsensic.1989, Erich Kolig, Dreamtime Politics: Religion, World View and Utopian Thought in Australian Aboriginal Society, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry nonsensic
• Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections—with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.1986 March 9, Roy Blount Jr., “Able were they ere they saw cable”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, retrieved 23 Aug 2026, The New York Times…. From the entry caveat
• Virtually all of this in-and-out trading was speculative, as is usually the case when traders enter and leave the market on the same day.1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Milk: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Dairy Products. From the entry in-and-out trading
• Mark Wright sent a speculative ball for me to chase after and I found myself leaving Tony Adams in my wake, with only Seaman to beat.2019, Robbie Fowler, My Life In Football: Goals, Glory & The Lessons I've Learnt, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry ball
• The Montenegro captain was finding space at will and followed up with a speculative shot that he scuffed wide, after Wales were slow in closing down the Juventus striker.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC. From the entry scuff
• The rise of psychology as an empirical, rather than speculative, field led inevitably to the erosion of scientific support for many of the claims of characteriologists.2007, F. Clark Power, Ronald J. Nuzzi, Darcia Narvaez, Moral Education, page 70. From the entry characteriologist
• More speculative plans are afoot for a world-class Tumen River Airport at Jingxin on China's border with Russia which lies on the polar route between Europe and Japan.1995, Peter J. Rimmer, “Integrating China into East Asia: Cross-border Regions and Infrastructure Networks”, in Stuart Harris, Garry…. From the entry Jingxin
• Behind the neo-Renaissance facades were high-rental apartments, and behind these, filling up the deeply cut speculative properties, were labyrinths of dark courts and backwings, one behind the other.1989, Richard Joseph Neutra, William Marlin, Nature Near: The Late Essays of Richard Neutra, page 184. From the entry backwing
• There were many speculative schemes which gambled on the expectation of an individual's life, as in the tontine system, whereby all the group's contributions went to the last survivor.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 634. From the entry tontine
• Just as the speculative intellect is constituted by all speculable things as they are speculable, so the practical intellect is constituted by operable things as they are operable.1966, Edward P. Mahoney, The Early Psychology of Agostino Nifo, page 710. From the entry speculable
• Tipsters are the camp-followers of every speculative orgy, living by their wits on scraps from roaring stock markets, making their get-away before the suckers can hit back.1933, Newsweek - Volume 1, page 23. From the entry camp follower
• Speculative philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.1929, Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, New York: Macmillan, page 4. From the entry speculative philosophy
• In contrast to the speculative tradition, a theology of truth that is lived and living here presents itself as an antitheology, one that attempts to move beyond the intellectual conception.1995, David Patterson, Exile: The Sense of Alienation in Modern Russian Letters, page 76. From the entry antitheology

Meaning of speculative

1. adjective Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
2. adjective Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
3. adjective Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.

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How do you use speculative in a sentence?

Speculative is used as an adjective. For example: “Like The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper.”

What is a short sentence with speculative?

“It’s uneven and full of speculative dot ­connecting.”

What does speculative mean?

Speculative means characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.