How to Use on spec in a Sentence

on spec

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• Cooper then wrote the script on spec.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 6 Dec. 2025
• The houses would be built on spec in three general styles or can be customized.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
• The yacht was started on spec and sold to a buyer during construction.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2023
• Imagine developed the script with Kasdan and Klein and sold it on spec.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
• Strong wrote the script on spec which was quickly taken off the market by LBI.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
• Years later, Jaffe wrote a screenplay for his Sharon and Ozzy story on spec.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
• The song was written on spec and then submitted out of the blue by Swift, the filmmakers revealed.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 June 2022
• According to Variety, the house is brand-new and was built on spec, so there are no photographs available yet.
  — Tierney McAfee, Country Living, 10 May 2020
• One hull was sold to a European client, while the other was built on spec with the American market in mind.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2023
• These decisions are not based on spec sheets or press releases, but derived from time behind the wheel with each (save for a couple of outliers).
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 11 June 2025
• After hearing about the 1985 story, Warden wrote the script on spec and hoped his old bosses would like it.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 21 Feb. 2023
• Anne Sundell wrote the script on spec from an original idea and developed alongside Richanbach.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 June 2024
• Hanna-Barbera was a relatively small studio at the time that was short of writers, and the pair started submitting gags and scripts on spec.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2020
• Jeffrey Eugenides had never approved anyone to adapt his novel but Sofia decided to write the script on spec anyway.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• If a cancellation policy is generous, there’s also no harm in booking on spec—even if a destination isn’t even open yet.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 15 May 2021
• May, considered by historians as the father of the ranch house, built the low-slung dwelling on spec in the mid-1930s, across the street from his own home.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 19 Oct. 2022
• Amazon Studios landed the script on spec in a competitive situation.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2023
• World’s fastest monitor There's a competitive air at CES that lends to tech brands trying to one-up each other on spec sheets.
  — Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2025
• Writers can still work on spec scripts (a project that isn’t being shopped around, and the writer isn’t engaging with a production company for the purchase of it), Handel said.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Wes Craven directed the original 1996 film Scream from the script that Williamson initially wrote on spec.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
• Songwriters often work on spec and may be the last to know if their contribution was used, by which time the negotiation window — which doesn’t currently exist — is closed.
  — Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• From that point, Trammell pioneered the concept of building on spec everything from warehouses to office towers to apartments and hotels.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The seller is Canadian developer Francesco Aquilini, who’s been making a small fortune on spec developments in the area over the last few years.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2022
• Tipping wrote the screenplay with Skip Bronkie and Zachary Akers, who penned the original draft on spec and made it onto the 2022 blacklist.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
• Conder said that job numbers for projects such as Eastland Commerce Center often change because they are built on spec, without commitments from future occupants.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2024
• The deal is the latest sign of developers pivoting toward specialized projects for customers such as Amazon to minimize the financial risk of building facilities on spec.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• As more television productions moved to Cowtown, Berry proposed an idea to turn two of Alliance’s industrial buildings, which were built on spec, into production spaces.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2025
• But unlike the tsunami of activity junior bankers handled during the pandemic, the recent sense in the lower rungs is that much of the work is on spec, as bosses try to position their firms for an upswing, especially once interest rates fall.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
• Republic’s model resembles that of the popular entrepreneurial crowdfunding site Kickstarter, but instead of buying a product on spec, users are scooping up a very small share of a company itself.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• That’s no doubt due to its screenwriter, Mitchell LaFortune, a former military intelligence officer who sold this script, supposedly based on his real-life experiences, on spec.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023