Established
Established adjective - Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established.
Speculative is an antonym for established.
Nearby Words: establishment, establishing
Speculative
Speculative adjective - Existing only as an assumption or speculation.
Usage example: a speculative explanation of why this ancient pottery was found hundreds of miles from where it was made
Established is an antonym for speculative.
Both words in one sentence
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Although its philosophical underpinnings were already well established in the real world at the time of writing, infosocialism was first codified and named in GURPS Transhuman Space as the basis of a speculative future economic system.
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The titles for the Seventh Doctor's Lost Stories weren't Andrew Cartmel's preferred ones, but since they'd become established in fanon courtesy of a speculative Doctor Who Magazine article, they decided to go with them (apart from "Ice Time", which became "Thin Ice").
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