adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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highly
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All three approaches were highly speculative .
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Federally insured thrifts that traditionally had limited their investments to home mortgages began bingeing on highly speculative investments.
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The savings figure, then, is highly speculative , but it is certainly good publicity for the department.
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The programme of explaining characteristics of dominant life-forms in terms simply of survival value is controversial and highly speculative .
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This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.
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Or he may simply be taking a highly speculative position.
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Here are the real facts: Crane Holdings was in fact a highly speculative investment which in the event performed very badly.
largely
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There does, however, appear to be very little evidence to directly support such theories which thus remain largely speculative .
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At present, further discussion of this question is largely speculative .
more
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There is a more speculative , perhaps deeper point.
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Given the very contemporary nature of this chapter it is, inevitably, more speculative than other sections of the book.
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Foundation remains show the ground plan but reconstruction of the superstructure has to be more speculative .
purely
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While there is undoubtedly a demand for more golf courses, it needs to be underlined that many applications are purely speculative .
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Again, this line of reasoning is purely speculative .
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However, at present these suggestions remain purely speculative .
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All discussions of extraterrestrial civilizations therefore have to be purely speculative .
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attack
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Also, such a system would be less vulnerable to speculative attack .
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Both the first proposal and the final plan brought speculative attacks on the dollar.
balance
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Thus speculative balances will be held in anticipation of the purchase of non-monetary assets at some future date.
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In the meantime, therefore, large speculative balances of money will be held.
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This is because of the much smaller role played by speculative balances .
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People will be more inclined to hold speculative balances of money in anticipation of a rise in interest rates.
bubble
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Mr Mieno is still talking and acting tough because he is intent on bursting the speculative bubbles in shares and property.
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There, a sharp rise in interest rates popped the market's speculative bubble .
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It has been suggested that such a speculative bubble may have been responsible for the rapid rise in equity prices in 1987.
demand
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This speculative demand can be quite high when the price of securities is considered certain to fall.
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These fluctuations in interest rates will cause further uncertainty and further shifts in the speculative demand for money.
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As the rate of interest falls, so the speculative demand for money increases.
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As the interest rate rises, the speculative demand for money falls and money market equilibrium is eventually restored.
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According to Keynesians, the speculative demand for money is highly responsive to changes in interest rates.
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The speculative demand can be quite large.
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The speculative demand becomes virtually infinite at this minimum rate of interest.
investment
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Large volumes of speculative investments leading to losses for the customer might be thought to imply churning.
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These speculative investments were the source of disputes for customers including Procter&038;.
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Here are the real facts: Crane Holdings was in fact a highly speculative investment which in the event performed very badly.
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Federally insured thrifts that traditionally had limited their investments to home mortgages began bingeing on highly speculative investments.
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Homes became a speculative investment which bubble and burst, leaving thousands without homes or unable to move home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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speculative stocks
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Descriptions of how this ancient tribe lived are speculative at best.
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The papers were full of talk of Lucan's whereabouts, all of it entirely speculative .
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Theories of the origin of life are partly speculative .
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Until further research has been done, any figures that I can give you are highly speculative .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, this line of reasoning is purely speculative .
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Almost any palaeontological reconstruction or interpretation is speculative , but that does not mean that no speculation is either rewarding or illuminating.
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Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks.
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For example, the impact of electricity privatisation is speculative .
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Personal opinion or preferences and speculative imaginings have no place in science.
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There does, however, appear to be very little evidence to directly support such theories which thus remain largely speculative .
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Until I saw this move I suspected that Kasparov's attack might be somewhat speculative .