Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with speculate in American Collocation
speculate
verb
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/ˈspekjəˌleɪt/
without any purpose or control
idly
wildly
Newspapers were speculating wildly about who this mysterious woman was.
only
merely
only
As to why this is so, we can at present only speculate.
by many people
widely
It is widely speculated that a second pipeline will be built.
cause
future
nature
origin
possibility
reason
It is not our place to speculate on the causes of such a change.
Almost exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci speculated about the possibility of flying machines.