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What does speculate mean?

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  1. (intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
  2. (intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
  3. (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
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As long as your friends are true to you, I'd speculate that your boyfriend is jerking you around.
The leaves might provide home fumigation, wood rat style, the researchers speculate.
However, it proceeded to speculate on the safety of their conviction with reference to the weight of the evidence adduced by the prosecution.
Scientists speculate that it could be a body from the distant Kuiper belt, way out in the outer solar system.
The Buddha's monks were not to speculate about the future or the past, or about such recondite questions as the beginning or end of the world.
Astronomers speculate that some then migrate inwards, dragged by the remaining material in the accretion disk around the star.

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