"speculation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

speculation sustantivo

sustantivo + speculation
Kolokacji: 13
media speculation • land speculation • takeover speculation • estate speculation • press speculation • ...
speculation + verbo
Kolokacji: 30
speculation begins • speculation arises • speculation centers • speculation continues • speculation grows • ...
verbo + speculation
Kolokacji: 36
prompt speculation • fuel speculation • end speculation • lead to speculation • raise speculation • ...
adjetivo + speculation
Kolokacji: 63
widespread speculation • pure speculation • intense speculation • considerable speculation • wild speculation • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(2) pure, intense, sheer
Kolokacji: 3
(4) rampant, far, excessive
Kolokacji: 3
(5) philosophical, metaphysical
Kolokacji: 2
1. mere speculation = zwykłe spekulacje mere speculation
3. fanciful speculation = spekulacje bujające w obłokach fanciful speculation
  • Chris, what have you got but a fabric sewn together from fanciful speculations and conjecture?
  • He returned to fanciful speculation on what the confirmation hearings might be.
  • Whether they really work, or whether they're just fanciful speculation, one can never find out.
  • Since what was actually there had been shrouded from mortal eyes for centuries, the way was clear to indulge in fanciful speculation.
  • Manucci's writings are full of more or less fanciful speculation on this matter:
  • Kodak called the damage request "an exercise in fantastic and fanciful speculation."
  • Spooks are fair game for fanciful speculation.
  • As I said, a fanciful speculation in its early stages.
  • Nevertheless, he ends by saying that "we can never be sure" if "the ethnic influence we perceive is no more than fanciful speculation."
  • Marilla, it is needless to say, was bringing the twins up in the good old ways of theology and discouraged all fanciful speculations thereupon.
(10) public, mystical, vague
Kolokacji: 3
(12) fevered, feverish, excited
Kolokacji: 3
(13) anxious, popular, lurid
Kolokacji: 3
(14) useless, fruitless, futile
Kolokacji: 3
(15) reckless, pointless
Kolokacji: 2
(17) irresponsible, dangerous
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + speculation
Kolokacji: 13
amid speculation • of speculation • to speculation • on speculation • for speculation • ...

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