Despite the desperate need for military intelligence on the battlefield, the chief suddenly felt awash in guilt for relaying what was really little more than a speculative reconstruction of message fragments.

Someone has referred to this speculative reconstructions as the traditional Pythagorean tuning of the chromatic genus:

Those Re.2007 drawings were based on a speculative reconstruction derived from a Reggiane engineer's description.

The series is solidly based on what archaeologists have found - some of the tales are speculative reconstructions based on real burials.

At Kenilworth the speculative and commercial reconstruction of the castle gardens in an Elizabethan style led to a vigorous academic debate over the interpretation of archaeological and historical evidence.

Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to reconcile theology and philosophy, and to bring about a speculative reconstruction of orthodox dogma.

There is a speculative 'reconstruction' of Wneks glider in the Kraków Museum of Ethnography.

They employed some kind of speculative reconstruction of pronuciation of Francian, the high French of the music's time and place.

Tradition history creates highly speculative reconstructions, often built on the speculative deductions from source criticism.

A speculative reconstruction of Utahraptor lifestyles and behavior was presented in the 1999 BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs.