"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
  • But far more often Mr. Mee's readings rest on imaginative speculations for which we simply have no evidence.
  • In his latest novel Ron Hansen mixes historical fact and imaginative speculation to try to flesh out the story of Hitler and his niece.
  • The Library Journal "highly recommended" it, saying that its "superb storytelling and imaginative historic speculation make [it] a priority choice for all SF and general fiction collections".
  • The limits of the damage at that point are a matter of imaginative speculation.
  • - It was nothing more than a statement - an imaginative speculation - wasn't it?
  • The context of hypothesis creation quite normally remains the realm of imaginative speculation.
  • In broad strokes it described the whets and the bows but few of the whys; these were buried, and only imaginative speculation could unearth even the probabilities.
  • AFI defines "science fiction" as a genre that marries a scientific or technological premise with imaginative speculation.
  • These fictions are primarily centred around imaginative speculations on the quest for artificial life associated with Paracelsian alchemy.
  • More than either of these two thinkers he was acquainted with the discoveries of modern science, and was thus able to correct or modify the highly imaginative speculations of Schelling.
(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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