11.   The early gains prompted covering by short sellers, who speculated with borrowed securities that bond prices would fall.

12.   They must have been formed, she speculates with an anguished wonder, by the paths of tears.

13.   Today, war is media fodder, something to chew over at the water cooler, to speculate about with the call-in hosts.

14.   He also is charged with speculating with public and party funds.

15.   The largest opposition party, the Flemish Liberal Democrats, had accused Maystadt of speculating with public funds in risky currency swap transactions.

16.   We explained that his retirement fund was not something he would want to speculate with.