Speculating
[spekjuleitɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speculate
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Examples
- You are speculating, I said, on a result which cannot possibly take place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- All over Europe in the fifteenth century merchants and sailors were speculating about new ways to the East. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And that sight kept men speculating, in spite of all the figures and scientific dicta of the ages. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I have looked at her, speculating thousands of times upon the unborn child from whom I had been rent. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Tarzan, an interested spectator of all that had taken place, sat speculating on the strange actions of these peculiar creatures. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- At the time, I understood that he was speculating with my own money: it was incredibly stupid of me, but I knew nothing of business. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Now he discovered himself speculating upon the fate which would have fallen to the girl had he not rescued her from Terkoz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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