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The idea led her to speculate about what would happen to a brilliant woman without resources or an outlet for her creativity.

It would be easy to speculate about what we could have done differently, but that wouldn't turn back the clock.

He declined to speculate about how much longer the investigation would take.

He said it is premature to speculate about how the defense may be structured, but said attorneys may coordinate their strategy.

Sometimes when K. and H. were bored they would speculate about the (real) identity of his mother and how his parents had met.

Restrict what you tell a doctor to specific symptoms and do not ever speculate about the cause.

Given this near total lack of knowledge, we cannot even begin to speculate about this world.

It is interesting to speculate about the total effect that Wilson's illnesses had on the president's behavior.

There's enough of a difference that the symptoms start to take on meaning you can actually speculate about.

While Democrats speculate about lesser or notional races, however, the Republicans are busy actually campaigning for the big one.

In the report, the authors do not speculate about what caused the disparities.

'I prefer not to speculate about the future, but as days go by, the risk of a total meltdown is reducing, ' Andrew said.

But Garcia told reporters that Habanos executives have "more important" things to do than speculate about the embargo.

lie could, however. only speculate about the precise mechanism by which this occurred. We exchanged various possibilities.

In their article, Wood and colleagues speculate about the evolutionary basis for this sex difference.

She hides from public view and the media speculate about her emotional state.

Prior to each meeting, market participants speculate about the possibility of an interest rate change.

It is one thing to speculate about the technical possibilities of future phones, but quite another to imagine the social consequences.

Yet when analysts speculate about the hot emerging markets of the future they tend first to mention Nigeria, with its 170m people.

Thus, we can only speculate about the direction in which the Court is likely to go in the future.

"The researchers use the higher performance in one area to speculate about deficit elsewhere, " says Dawson.

And all the time people speculate about just how bad it might get in a city the Europeans once called the Venice of Asia.

It is, of course, a crazy idea but sometimes it's cute to speculate about crazy ideas.

Until yesterday, we could only speculate about the origins of the current H1N1 virus killing human beings - but now we know more.

Now researchers speculate about why East Asians have the flushing gene in the first place.

The detective story is boring, because you can speculate about the ending when you start reading.

John refused to speculate about the content of the letter.

At the moment all we can do is speculate about the future of the firm-nothing is definite.

It is vain now to speculate about the reasons for this.

It's always hard to speculate about the future.

Task 1: Develop and use a model to speculate about the likely survival rate for elephants aged 2 to 60.

Relying on their own, I can only see in the TV clips and have been to major cities who said words to speculate about the city's profile.

Speculative questions: the reader has to speculate about things which are unknowable, because they are outside the text.

On the other hand, it is tempting to speculate about what purpose female ejaculation could fulfil.

You prefer to act immediately rather than speculate about various options

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