hypothesize
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But the way Stoppard incorporates mathematical concepts as rarefied as fractal geometry to explore concepts of order and chaos as the characters hypothesize on the patterns of time is Stoppardian through and through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
"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
By running a high-fidelity simulation of the machine learning model on supercomputers, the researchers can then hypothesize about scenarios beyond those covered by the existing data.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 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
The team hypothesizes that even though DFT does not directly model Cooper pairs, the electron density it predicts should resemble that of paired electrons, allowing researchers to study potential superconducting behavior.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
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
The new paper hypothesizes there are plumes of magma which exist around the IOGL.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2023
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
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
Scientists can use them to test whether certain hypothesized light-weight elementary particles exist and how massive they are.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
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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
The Amanchukwu Lab -- which is most notable for its battery research -- applied insights from aqueous batteries to the problem, hypothesizing that controlling the water with organic solvents could provide a solution.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024
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
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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