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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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Whether this reeve consulted informally with the more important townsmen, we can only speculate.
Astronomers speculate that some then migrate inwards, dragged by the remaining material in the accretion disk around the star.
The astronomers speculate that quasars were ignited as blackholes grew by swallowing large quantities of cold, dense gas.
It would be easy to speculate that this country has been asked to provide an air corridor.
As have others, Gaskell uses comparative studies of Razorbills and other alcids to speculate about the behavioral ecology of Great Auks.
The leaves might provide home fumigation, wood rat style, the researchers speculate.

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