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speculated

verb

past tense of speculate

as in guessed

to form an opinion from little or no evidence I speculate that someone has been using this cabin as a trysting place

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Recent Examples of speculated Multiple voices on the channel then speculated that the stop was related to Thursday’s Microsoft Outlook outage. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026 Another piece by the same paper speculated that AI-cautious Democrats wanted to use the scandal to slow down the industry. — John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026 Some industry watchers have speculated to us that the studio wants to fortify itself given the Warner Bros-Paramount merger, and potentially steal a march on Netflix, which is still weighing up who will lead its film division. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2026 This state-by-state regulatory model quickly fell short, as utilities speculated in unregulated industries and hid the costs. — John Farrell, Time, 9 Nov. 2026 Pope Leo personally pushed ahead with the visit In the aftermath of his surgery, many speculated that the trip would be canceled. — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026 Minnella speculated to jurors that Ouellette could have fallen from the truck and twisted her ankle during the video. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2026 Some political observers have speculated Trump would jettison Hegseth after the election. — Spencer Kimball,garrett Downs,dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,justin Papp, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026 The late-night host speculated that the president was in the White House throwing a tantrum at his TV. — Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for speculated

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Wood anyone have guessed that Colin Jost and Michael Che are Swifties?

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
Monahan did more digging and found out there were three adult brothers living in Boston who could have owned the canns, and DeAngelis guessed that they were made before Henry Vassall’s death in 1769.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of guessed

Verb

Riverside County Sheriff's Office Investigators with RSO's Central Homicide Unit assumed the investigation and determined that 34-year-old Brea resident Daniel Grossman was a suspect in the shooting.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
Some assumed her husband was jealous, which was not the case.

— William Earl, Variety, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of assumed

Verb

British prosecutors charged two British nationals under the National Security Act in relation to the incident outside RAF Fairford airbase, with police saying the two were suspected of assisting Iran.

— Natasha Bertrand, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026
Alcohol is suspected as a contributing factor, pending an autopsy by the Stanislaus County Coroner's Office.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of suspected

Verb

It’s supposed to be a sweeping and constructive process, akin to holding up a mirror to governments to improve their human rights policies.

— Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
The shoe was supposed quickly return the following month with the more traditional upper construction seen now, only in a natural mix of browns, but the release wound up being cancelled.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of supposed

Verb

People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought -- at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests.

— Mary Evans, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
That was so shocking; whoever was manning the CW's scorebug thought the kick was as good as gold and hung three points on the board.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of thought

Verb

The author surmised that because more bass are caught in deep water during midday hours, bass obviously migrate from shallow to deep water as the sun brightens.

— Morris Gresham, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2026
In a recent survey of the state of twee music, Mason Mann, a member of Josephine’s Next Million Miles—a newer act that owes a lot to the homespun indie pop of the ’80s and ’90s—surmised that the core of the genre was not joy, but pain.

— Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of surmised

Verb

Savannah Guthrie has taken to social media to urge anyone with knowledge about her mother, Nancy, who was presumed kidnapped in February and has yet to be found, to come forward.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026
Coroner’s officials are examining human remains found in a Natomas Crossing field earlier this week that are presumed to be those of Lovett Moore, a blind 33-year-old man who disappeared from a Natomas convenience store more than a year ago.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026