Definition of "speculates" [speculates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of speculate. (verb)

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• "Darwin speculates that the real "knowledge of good and evil" may have been the realization of the cruelty involved in hunting animals for sustenance"
• "Starobin speculates that Putin may be shifting Russia away from the religious dead zone it occupied during the Soviet era to what Starobin terms a "Patriotic Orthodoxy" — a strong government animated by a current of religion."
• "Safin speculates that he didn't get healthy until after the French Open, which ends in early June."