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speculator

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Recent Examples of speculator On Monday, Japan’s top currency official, Atsushi Mimura, warned speculators not to test the Ministry of Finance, a clear hint currency intervention could be on the way. — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2026 Thomas Jefferson and other politicians, many of them land speculators, would pursue Native land cessions for both personal and political gain into the 1800s. — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 In 2008, towards the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama frequently berated oil speculators for artificially inflating prices. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026 Long before that, Point Richmond was an island surrounded by water and marshes, on land owned by 1800s farmer and real estate speculator John Nicholl. — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for speculator

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Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.

— David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.

— Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021

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