How to Use hypothesize in a Sentence

hypothesize

verb
Definition of hypothesizenext
Synonyms for hypothesizenext
  • Psychologists hypothesized that his odd behavior was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
  • And what Jim Scott hypothesized was that in fact, that’s not at all the case.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
  • That led him to hypothesize the same might apply for the virus that had just emerged from Wuhan.
    — Lisa Du, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The unique position of the wound led the researchers to hypothesize that the frill was punctured from the back.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Kingston then points an open hand to the TV and babbles some more as if to hypothesize on the next season.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 7 June 2019
  • The study authors hypothesize that the metals found in the e-liquid leached from the heating coil in the vape pen.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Both produced the kinds of flows that had been hypothesized.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Jones and his co-authors hypothesize that the metals found in the e-liquid leached from the heating coil in the vape pen.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The researchers hypothesized that the closer the injured muscle was to the body the more likely the surgery would occur.
    — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 3 July 2024
  • Some studies have hypothesized tiny clots in the cells that persist for a long time may be the cause of some symptoms.
    — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In addition, these hypothesized alien colonists couldn’t just sweep through the Milky Way once and leave it at that.
    — Seth Shostak /, NBC News, 11 June 2018
  • The team hypothesized that biliverdin might make the lizards unpalatable to predators, but birds aren’t deterred by the stuff.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
  • The researchers hypothesized that the higher a person’s PDHI score, the lower their risk of being among the deceased.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • These calls vary in intensity and speed, which some experts hypothesize may have to do with the type of threat the prairie dog is facing.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The cause of his death was thought to be starvation, though Krakauer and others have hypothesized about what led him to that state of starvation.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 27 July 2019
  • The team hypothesizes a catastrophic flood killed most of the trees in the forest and preserved the root system as fossils.
    — Kelly Murray, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The bank hypothesized whether a sudden uptick in birth rates in the 2000s, driven by the advent of IVF treatment, could be replicated now.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024
  • There is no reason to hypothesize about a secret plan when a plan is there to be analyzed.
    — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 18 July 2024
  • This led the researchers to hypothesize that tubeworm larvae were squirming through crevices below the seafloor to reach new vents.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Scholars hypothesize that it may have been hidden around the time of the Spanish invasion of 1521 C.E.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
  • Experts hypothesize that the virus homes in on those cells, disrupting the pathway for the neurons to get to their destination in the brain.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2021
  • This prompted more of the cancer-fighting cells to stick around the site of the brain tumors and, the researchers hypothesized, would reduce the amount of the immunotherapy elsewhere in the body.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • But scientists hypothesize that that might not have always been the case.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Many sightings were in the south of France, where, Justine hypothesized, the summers are wet and the winters mild enough for the animals to survive, at least in a burrow.
    — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
  • The researchers hypothesize that sunlight may actually pass through the ice and heat up the ground beneath it.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The researchers hypothesize that the crabs may rely on their claws to make noise when threats are farther away, but then switch to the stomach system when the danger closes in.
    — David Shultz, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Since 1645, scientists have hypothesized about the presence of water on the Moon.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
  • This could be part of the reason that younger people scored lower overall, Maertens’s team hypothesized.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 5 July 2023
  • Nobody knew what was wrong—it’s been hypothesized that uterine cancer was to blame, but evidence is scant, and the chapter is full of mays and coulds.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Protoplanetary disks are rotating rings of gas and dust that surround stars at their birth and are hypothesized to lead to the creation of planets.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024

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