overspeculation
- a word derived from speculation.
Example Sentences
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A reasonable person, he maintains, would "put those pieces together, make some guess about what that part of the puzzle might be about and then modestly decline overspeculation about the pieces that don't fit."
From Time Magazine Archive
But the central bank is trying to thwart overspeculation.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thoroughgoing deflation of overspeculation seemed wholesome and proper to the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
These indicated prosperity, not overspeculation, thought the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
The distress of the previous year continued, English internal affairs owing partly to a commercial panic brought on by overspeculation in railways, and partly to a repeated failure of the crops.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
