speculate (about)

Definition of speculate (about)next

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Verb
  • With no energy available to warm the planet to these temperatures, the team reasoned that the temperature must be a residual effect of prior warming either from being engulfed by the red giant or during an inward migration.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • The second is reasoning intelligence, the layer that looks at a task, breaks it into steps and figures out how to do it, including things like making a judgement call on whether an object will be heavy or light.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • But Nouel believes these video trends and online and in-person forums for women are helping to change that.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Police said, according to WBNS, that there was a history of domestic violence in the relationship, and it is believed to be the cause of Creech's death.
    Michael Guise, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • The bidding process that won AllHere the contract had concluded months before the Carvalho travel to Washington.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • The series is even, 1-1, and concludes Sunday afternoon.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • Cisco has built and is refining an AI tool for investor relations that analyzes its financial history alongside competitors’ earnings calls and can anticipate likely questions from specific analysts.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • In the new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers analyzed electronic health records from 2001 to 2023 for more than 700,000 pairs of mothers and children in Hong Kong.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
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“Speculate (about).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speculate%20%28about%29. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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