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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of speculate.

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Examples

  • Darwin speculates that the real "knowledge of good and evil" may have been the realization of the cruelty involved in hunting animals for sustenance

    Introduction 2006

  • Starobin speculates that Putin may be shifting Russia away from the religious dead zone it occupied during the Soviet era to what Starobin terms a "Patriotic Orthodoxy" — a strong government animated by a current of religion.

    Russia's Would-Be Masters 2005

  • Starobin speculates that Putin may be shifting Russia away from the religious dead zone it occupied during the Soviet era to what Starobin terms a "Patriotic Orthodoxy" — a strong government animated by a current of religion.

    Russia's Would-Be Masters 2005

  • Safin speculates that he didn't get healthy until after the French Open, which ends in early June.

    USATODAY.com - This time, Safin has no chance 2001

  • Schantag speculates that a lot of men, particularly from the

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Also, while the Northern Exposure restaurant isn't open or publicly accessible, Twin Restaurant "speculates" it will infringe, according to the filings.

    Rolls-Royce, Twitter, Drudge Report: Intellectual Property - Bloomberg 2010

  • "Such leniency can be only in one case: if Armenia gives the international community what it expects from Armenia," speculates "Haykakan Zhamanak."

    «Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայան 2009

  • Although we don't yet have an official announcement from Facebook or Google, Playfish's popular game Who Has the Biggest Brian? allowing "Android fans … to play together with their Facebook friends anytime, anywhere." speculates, "that presumably means that the Android game uses the same Facebook Connect technology as the iPhone version - which as far as we're aware is the first implementation of Facebook Connect in an Android game or application."

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • And everybody kind of speculates about it, but there's not a darn thing we can do about it, nor is there any strategy we can do except possibly have it discounted. "

    Printing: Original October Surprise (Part 3) 2006

  • And everybody kind of speculates about it, but there's not a darn thing we can do about it, nor is there any strategy we can do except possibly have it discounted. "

    Original October Surprise (Part 3) 2006

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