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How to use the word speculate in a Sentence?

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I can’t speculate on his mental processes and what he decides to speak on, i’m concerned not with words but with action and he is a man of action.

John Stemberger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t want to speculate a lot on what’s happened there, because they’re all under investigation. And we’re all trying to determine what is going on. Is this a trend? Is this a pattern?

Nick Calio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s constant self-evaluation always going on. i don’t want to speculate a lot on what’s happened there, because they’re all under investigation. And we’re all trying to determine what is going on. Is this a trend? Is this a pattern?

Nick Calio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not going to get ahead of that process with the special counsel and speculate on what they may or may not want or ask for.

Ian Sams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My personal preference was that I didn’t want to bring in a physician to speculate, i totally see the other side, where a well-trained eye of a physician might recognize something that might totally make sense. But I just didn’t want to be speculating.

Van Pelt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't want to speculate what happens if we don't, i'm going to count on doing it, because we've got to do it.

John Kerry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As it relates to what might be the future conduct of Russian President Vladimir Putin, I can not speculate.

Even Harris

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Previously, we could only really speculate, we could tell that a bone had broken and healed, but we had no idea of what caused the break. While that can certainly still be the case today, the more we approach these pathologies from a differential diagnosis perspective, and importantly, the more we work with medical professionals, the greater our identification accuracy is.

Cary Woodruff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Senate Judiciary Committee's speculation, i can't speculate on anything. We got President Biden.

Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The MRI will tell a lot more once he gets that done, i don’t want to sit there and speculate that they’ve got more concern or not.

Billy Donovan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was completely unexpected, and we are struggling to understand what it means, but I will speculate that this is not likely the original crater floor. From the diameter of Jezero Crater, we expect the original crater floor is significantly deeper than where we are right now.

Ken Farley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But it doesn't really look like that's what happened, i would hate to speculate but…I don't think he was always a monster. I think the parents had a lot to do with it. I think, during COVID, he was isolated, and…whatever they did, buying that gun for him…that's child abuse, in my opinion.

Audrey Conklin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I expect it not to be [an issue], that’s on Kyrie. That’s his personal decision. What he does is not on us to speculate. I expect us to have our whole team at some point.

Kevin Durant

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I expect it not to be [ an issue ], that’s on Kyrie. That’s his personal decision. What he does is not on us to speculate. I expect us to have our whole team at some point.

Kevin Durant

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s not sustainable to do it without profits, but it’s too early now to speculate about that.

Ruud Dobber

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The findings are impressive and do highlight the importance of time outside on such a scale, that said, while the findings are encouraging, what we don't get from the study is a sense of why we see the results that we do ? While the authors speculate as to the reasons, there is a crucial need to engage directly with young people to understand the results from the perspective of those who were taking part.

Carol Fuller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We really like our team. We like the way the pieces on this team fit, we have some of the best clubhouse team chemistry that I’ve ever been around and any time you talk about those moves it’s kind of fun to speculate but there’s a very real impact on the clubhouse of bringing in, even if something is a move that makes sense on paper, it's disruptive to the team dynamic and you just have to think through that.

Farhan Zaidi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are kind of speculating that perhaps it was washed out during one of the flooding events in Louisiana, it had a significant amount of algae on it's back that leads us to speculate that it was floating in the Gulf for a while.

Kelly Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s hard to speculate on rumors. But if something really formal happened from Justice, we would of course react and take action, there have been a few cases where members have had charges filed against them for various things and we’ve removed them from committees immediately.

Steve Scalise

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're not at a position to speculate on that now.

Douglas Korneski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Robert O'Brien, or anyone else, can speculate as they see fit, I am not going to engage in speculation, I'm going to engage in the rigorous analysis of the situation based on the conditions and the plans that I'm aware of in my conversations with the President.

Pentagon Milley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You had the president of one party nominating, and you had the Senate in the hands of the other party. A situation where you've got Read MoreSenate conservatives both would be different. I don't want to speculate, but I think appointing judges is a high priority for me in 2020.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation( the act of predator attacking prey) especially so, as paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.

Phillip Barden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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