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What does speculative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Characterized by speculation; based on guessing, unfounded opinions, or extrapolation.
  2. Pursued as a gamble, with possible large profits or losses; risky.
  3. Pertaining to financial speculation; Involving or resulting from high-risk investments or trade.
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Modem science, no matter how theoretical, speculative and abstract, strives finally for empirical evidence to test and confirm the truth of its claims.
The keeper and a defender went for the same ball and then left it for each other, allowing the speculative shot to hit the empty net.
Only three of them avoided the speculative angle, dealing respectively with anatomy, ethical issues and why cloned cells die.
He produced an air shot when well placed and another player's speculative long range effort sailed wide.
If anything, his work is getting less interesting and adventurous, reworking old ideas for a speculative market.
I believe the endosymbiotic theory is quite speculative and not based on solid evidence.

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