hypothesis

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When one examines statistical deviations from trend for output and employment, economies look similar before and after recessions, and he sees little support for the Schumpeterian creative-destruction hypothesis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

To test this hypothesis investigators needed to seize McCullagh's computer, but given his media work, including as a part-time assistant audience editor at the Belfast Telegraph, this would require additional steps.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

"The hypothesis is that it's the lycopene from the tomatoes and the isoflavones from the soy that's inducing the effect, so we didn't want to have a control that's just water," Cooperstone said.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

That hypothesis suggests the mammals sometimes travel to feeding grounds in the Antarctic but then take a different journey home -- ending up in a completely new breeding area.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Finally, in 1543, a quite different hypothesis to explain the apparent motion of the planets was published by a Polish Catholic cleric named Nicholas Copernicus.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan