hypothesize
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"A lot of people hypothesize what they would have done, or whether they would have been able to take on the attacker," said Astrid.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
“I would hypothesize that we didn’t have as many people in the office five days a week, even pre-COVID, just because of the nature of the work that takes place in Los Angeles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025
"We could hypothesize about how individual telomeres might play a role in aging and cancer, but it was simply impossible to test those hypotheses. Now we can."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
However, I hypothesize that there are more than polls count.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2024
Why hypothesize the existence of vast, super-deadly pandemics that seem unlike anything else in the historical record?
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Emily Choquette, director of the Torrance-based Float Clinic and Research Center, says she hypothesizes that some, but not all, of the benefits received during wet floating would be achieved with dry floating, too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Griffith hypothesizes that signals from TRPM8 and GluK2 might be somehow combined—in the spinal cord, brain, or both—to influence a mouse’s choices.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 13, 2024
Oktay hypothesizes that those risks also may be mitigated in healthy women who delay menopause via ovarian tissue cryopreservation.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
He hypothesizes they could have originated from a magma ocean on a planet with an iron core or a region near an exploding star that was enriched with these elements.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
Heckscher hypothesizes that this change in diet may help the veery return to North America in better shape, more capable of a longer breeding season.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 28, 2023
Abatzoglou hypothesized the region’s link between wildfires and soil moisture could cause the mitigating effects of the preceding El Niño to linger longer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
He also hypothesized that Tesla could cut vehicle or FSD prices to make its EVs more affordable and attractive to consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Thus, she has hypothesized, if logging companies were to leave some of the so-called mother trees standing, depleted forests would find it easier to regenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
Soon maps of prehistoric seas were almost solid with hypothesized land bridges–from North America to Europe, from Brazil to Africa, from Southeast Asia to Australia, from Australia to Antarctica.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Fun fact: Fans have been hypothesizing, perhaps completely inaccurately, that this is a secret “Cloverfield” movie because of producer J.J.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
My whole goal with this show was to capture a small sliver of the zeitgeist where people could be talking about something, hypothesizing and talking, and I knew that required a weekly release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Thus, a controversy was sparked, with many scientists hypothesizing that non-cyanobacterial microorganisms must be responsible for the "missing" nitrogen fixation.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
I wore it during the day, hypothesizing that the additional data would help it distinguish sleep from horizontal wakefulness.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2023
No amount of your analyzing, criticizing, judging, or hypothesizing will bring the peace you are looking for.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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