hypothesized

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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

The hypothesized one-two punch of earthquakes was probably “not just a black swan chance-in-a-million,” Goldfinger said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Assuming a bloom of virulent C. acnes was to blame, I hypothesized that recolonizing my skin microbiota with probiotic LAB could effectively treat my acne.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 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