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Adding “Web MD” brought back the same results, albeit staged in doctors’ offices, with lab coats and specula as props.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

The firm also apparently compounded its problems through ill-advised specula tion in the market for Government securities.

From Time Magazine Archive

He made 430 parabolic specula in twenty-one years.

From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George

He refers to Maurolycus’ work with concave specula.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

This was a most arduous task; for, at that time, there was no machinery sufficiently exact for grinding specula, and, as a consequence, the work had all to be done by hand.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine