speculate

IPA: spˈɛkjʌɫeɪt

(obsolete, intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
(intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
(intransitive, programming) To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.

Examples of "speculate" in Sentences

Fans speculate that the cafe was based on the.
It is indecorous to speculate on these matters.
He speculated on the reasons for the phenomenon.
Yes, yes, but the freedom to speculate is essential --
And on the right, I speculate, is the house we stayed in, with the missing loggia in tact.
The latter instinct, I would speculate, is the ability of mammals to deny the self in favor of the herd.
Linking to the same Washington Post story, Crispin Sartwell, at his eyeofthestormblogs. com, writes: "this, we may speculate, is the reason that many prisoners of the u.s. will never be released: nothing they did before, but the secrets they learned in prison, the details of their own torture, present a security risk. we will not only torment you, we will detain/disappear you for having been tormented by us."