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Meanings of speculate in English
Reflect deeply on a subject.
Portuguese
teorizar Catalan
conjecturar To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.
Synonyms
Examples for "reflect"
Examples for "reflect"
1
He said National needs to reflect the mutlicultural society New Zealand is.
2
Does the British vote reflect such trends and events elsewhere in Europe?
3
Its popularity among young readers, of course, may well reflect parents' tastes.
4
But the current job market has given me enough time to reflect.
5
The semi-annual lab tests often don't reflect the reality at power plants.
1
Their purpose: to contemplate change in the way scientific secrets are kept.
2
Fernandez later said his economic plans did not contemplate a debt default.
3
We're allowing the audience to really contemplate and think about what's happening.
4
Should those who have the military power to intervene contemplate doing so?
5
I didn't want to contemplate what had gone so wrong that Mr.
1
Larsen's muse is the cold, oft-traveled waters that separate Britain from France.
2
In this garden the muse of Andrew Marvell blossomed like the cherry-tree.
3
Suffering from writer's block, Shakespeare is in need of a new muse.
4
The contests were not confined to the effusions of the poetical muse.
5
The muse woke the muses, and the day grew bright and eventful.
1
He'd had ten years and thousands of miles to ponder the point.
2
Weeks, months-thinkabout that when you ponder the terrifying issue of marriage.
3
Consider the great wall of China: ponder the great populace of Pekin.
4
Hydt appeared to ponder the words but it was not serious consideration.
5
This time, though, there is something different; something for everyone to ponder.
1
Go lift some weights; read some books; meditate; earn a new degree.
2
So, meditate on your spouse with appreciation; focus on the good qualities.
3
Preserve it and meditate upon it in your heart during the day.
4
Do I get up an hour before my children rise to meditate?
5
For now, return to your nests and meditate upon the Great Ocean.
1
After taking a few days to mull it over, I'd hesitantly agreed.
2
I am afraid I have made a mull of it.-I am increasing.
3
Tell the cook to mull some red wine with honey and raisins.
4
As lawmakers mull an overhaul of financial regulation, the stakes are high.
5
I mull it over and decide, on balance, not to storm out.
1
Again; for another case whereon the better-favoured heart may ruminate in charity.
2
We ruminate on the shipping forecast's strange function, as national comfort blanket.
3
Without taking his binocular from his eyes, Trendon began to ruminate aloud.
4
Why mournfully ruminate on the past, instead of looking to the future?
5
Now I'm going right up to my bedroom to sort of ruminate.
1
In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices.
2
The black on the paper is what man has excogitated-excogitated
3
He rubbed the warm pipe bowl against his cheek and excogitated the matter in deep humility.
4
He meditated there in a condition of insanity for perhaps a minute, and excogitated a device.
5
But your modern lounger at the clubs, what variety of liquors are excogitated to please his palate!
1
Business and technology commentator Paul Spain joins us to mull over these questions.
2
Also I wanted to mull over Jason Morris and his problems.
3
She could not have said why she continued to mull over the thought.
4
When he had to mull over a problem, that was what he did.
5
There may be a couple of new choices or options to mull over.
1
And how you'll chew over that bit of victory, Winter, I'm sure.
2
The bank will also have new economic forecasts to chew over.
3
That was an idea to chew over when I had time.
4
Wade seemed to chew over that explanation for a bit, then finally nodded.
5
That will give them something to chew over for a while.
1
I've had far too much time to think over the last month.
2
I think over the years I have become a much better boxer.
3
She wanted to dance away, retreat and think over what he'd said.
4
I think over the old times so, sitting here in the dark.
5
Let us go in for a while-thebetter to think over it.
Usage of speculate in English
1
You speculate about situations, get anxious that leaving wasn't a good idea.
2
The company declined to comment or speculate on any possible additional charges.
3
He forced himself not to speculate, but to wait for his answer.
4
But for the moment it would be premature to speculate, he said.
5
German media have been mostly careful not to speculate on Schumaher's condition.
6
They speculate about using other options to help them meet a partner.
7
This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks.
8
Which means experts and amateurs in the space-interested public can only speculate.
9
He refused to speculate about May taking no deal off the agenda.
10
Hadithi declined to speculate about the number of additional personnel under discussion.
11
They speculate on future pay awards, which are based on independent recommendations.
12
I cannot speculate on what action the regulators will take, Shannon said.
13
Some institutions use derivatives to hedge and speculate at the same time.
14
It's so easy to speculate about what is happening at the office.
15
They can gossip all they want; they can speculate all they want.
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There won't be any need to speculate, he wrote in NK News.
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Translations for speculate
Portuguese
Speculate through the time
Speculate across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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