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The researchers hypothesize that the agents were using the tool to get around restrictions on their web browsing, for instance to access websites that have blocks against automated access.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"This led me to hypothesize that the biophysical properties of cells influence the altered metabolic programs that everyone observes in tumors."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

"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

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

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

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

The team hypothesizes that as this foraging strategy proved successful, dinosaurs would have evolved ever larger feathers that would have eventually been capable of flight.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 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

Drawing on these findings, Dr. Snyder hypothesized that naturally occurring psychotic episodes were likely caused by high dopamine levels in the brain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

While pinning down the exact reason why these states buck the trend is difficult, Hoell hypothesized the region’s unique summer monsoon rains could alleviate the risk.

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

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

The Joliots had hypothesized that the same radioactivity they had induced in boron with alpha particles would be produced by deuterons acting on carbon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Citrini Research published a widely read report on Sunday hypothesizing about how AI could transform the economy, including day-to-day payments, dragging down the shares of companies that make money from processing them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Gradually, discussion of her absence morphed from chatter online, including among conspiracy theorists, to mainstream hypothesizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024

But they can also be longer, which means more effort, more information seeking and hypothesizing is needed, so uncertainty persists longer.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023

Messori published a paper earlier this year noting repeated example of this phenomenon, and hypothesizing a connection to large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 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