hypothesized

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He hypothesized that the drug might reduce blood clotting and thus prevent heart attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The genes were biologically "toxic" to humans, researchers hypothesized, and eventually purged out -- in essence, the children who inherited those traits might not have lived to pass them on.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

"We hypothesized there was likely something real behind the hype because rosemary contains many antioxidants," said Pang, co-lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

She hypothesized that the issue was compounded by the fact that many people were not going in to work, meaning they didn’t have disposable income to eat out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

Properly called the Öpik–Oort cloud, it is named for the Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik, who hypothesized its existence in 1932, and for the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who refined the calculations eighteen years later.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson