peculating's Usage Examples:

Similar principles apply in infinite detail to the treatment of wind instruments, and we must never lose sight of them in speculating as to the reasons why the genius of Beethoven was able to carry instrumentation into worlds of which Haydn and Mozart never dreamt, or why, having gone so far, it left anything unexplored.

"It's not nice to be speculating on the sex lives of our guests," Dean mimicked.

I moved to the want ads, speculating on what I'd be doing with my time in the future but nothing caught my eye.

While he hated even speculating about a child murderer, it was the first time Shipton's attempted killing began to make any sense.

Dean spent much of the trip speculating on the reason for the law man's visit.

While Cook was speculating on the cause of this phenomenon, and was in the act of ordering out the boats to take soundings, the " Endeavour " struck heavily, and fell over so much that the guns, spare cables, and other heavy gear had at once to be thrown overboard to lighten the ship.

Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs, as having invested part of the Liberal Party funds in American Marconi shares in which he, with them, was speculating - a transaction hotly debated in Parliament in 1913.

I'll write it in general terms, speculating on how difficult it is to maintain both lives, operating one incognito.

He became an associate of Jay Gould in the development and sale of railways; and in 1863 removed to New York City, where, besides speculating in railway stocks, he became a money-lender and a dealer in "puts" and "calls" and "privileges," and in 1874 bought a seat in the New York Stock Exchange.

"Okay—I'm just speculating," Dean closed his eyes.

Bad science fiction plots, speculating on futures which could not really happen, are the worst examples of this.

Fred asked the question like a learned professor, speculating on a universal problem of time, space and the creation of the universe.

Synonyms:

steal, misappropriate, defalcate, fiddle, malversate, embezzle,

Antonyms:

fall back, stand still, break,