hypothesis
Example Sentences
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The WHO's investigations have proved inconclusive, pending further evidence, with all hypotheses still on the table.
From Barron's
The team plans to test their hypothesis in the lab.
From Science Daily
Dead internet theory is the hypothesis that the web either already is or soon will be entirely dominated by artificial intelligence.
From Barron's
He also developed what he calls the adaptive markets hypothesis, which uses the principles of evolution to explain behaviors such as loss aversion and overconfidence.
In opposition to the efficient-market hypothesis, which holds that stock prices reflect all available information, Haugen argued that “the pathetically inefficient market doesn’t seem to have a clue as to what is going on.”
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