Job
Speculate
Speculate verb - Invest at a risk.
Usage example: I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating
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- One case in Trials and Tribulations opens with the news that Phoenix not only lost a case, but did such a horrible job in the process that some speculate that he deliberately threw the trial.
Source: Clear My Name -
Others speculate that, since he is addicted to porn, he is simply displacing that addiction while he's on the job.
Source: Addiction Displacement - Quirrel from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality refuses to help Harry speculate on the possibility that it was him who killed Hermione, noting that either he does too good a job, and convinces him he did it, or does too poor a job, and convinces him that he's covering up that he did it.
Source: Hired to Hunt Yourself
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