Preposition: in

• nature: Some of what is discussed below, it has to be said, must still be accounted speculative in nature.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: There is no clarity as to the proportion between registered voters and people eligible for registration, which makes any judgment speculative.

Modifies a noun

• cvs: In addition, we'd be happy to receive speculative CVs at any time.

• lob: But the lead lasted just five minutes, as Paul Evans scored with a speculative long range lob over the back pedaling Dean Williams.

• bubble: In either isn't the end-product a huge speculative bubble bound to burst?

• fiction: For the present, its wider implications belong to speculative fiction.

• Freemasonry: Change came when Speculative Freemasonry was exported to the continent.

• builder: The rented houses have been provided mostly by speculative builders.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: I had a curious instant of purely speculative thought.

• wildly: A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on " wildly speculative rumors.

• overly: When Greenblatt discusses the sources of Shakespeare's inspiration, they are often stunningly banal and overly speculative.

• highly: The mineral deposits vary considerably in extent which made lead mining a highly speculative venture.

• entirely: Good news could come between 9th and 12th tho when what has been viewed as entirely speculative starts to ' deliver the goods ' .

• inevitably: Without specifying the nature of the platform, costs are inevitably speculative.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Most of their projects, like the Carbon Tower, remain speculative.

• become: From here on, what would happen next becomes even more speculative.

• consider: There hasn't been one for GM crops, so risk assessment has to consider speculative " what if?

• seem: An investment may, in isolation, seem highly speculative.

• regard: However, these observations must be regarded as speculative.

• receive: There are no vacancies currently available but we're always happy to receive speculative CVs.