Rumors
Speculation and rumors are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speculation" instead a noun "Rumors".
Speculation
Speculation noun - A risky undertaking.
Rumors and speculation are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Rumors" with "Speculation", this nouns are similar.
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The actual card/monster was never seen, only a brief mention was made, but the speculation and rumors over it were rampant.
Source: Anime / Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's -
The mass attention did lead to Blizzard introducing a corrupted version, but then the rumors and speculation turned to ways on how to purify the weapon, which couldn't actually be done.
Source: Missing Secret - There were a very small handful of references to the sword in game, leading to many rumors and speculation, including an entire fansite dedicated to searching for it, but it turned out to not actually be in the game.
Source: Missing Secret
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