theorize
There is one orchid so strangely shaped that Darwin hypothesized a moth with a 12-inch proboscis that could dip down into its long, hollow tube.
Bartoshuk's latest study found some people experience greater "oral burn" from alcohol and she hypothesized that they were less likely to become alcoholics as a result.
It is hypothesized that, in this disease, a genetic defect forces calcium to remain outside of cells rather than entering them.
In the 18th century, natural scientists began to hypothesize about the Earth having a linear history rather than an eternally recurring pattern.
Children have a natural tendency to investigate, to hypothesize, and to experiment.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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hypothesize | American Dictionary

hypothesize
verb[ I/T ]
us/hɑɪˈpɑθ·əˌsɑɪz/
to give a possible but not yet proven explanation for something:
There's no point hypothesizing about how the accident happened, since we'll never really know.

Examples of hypothesize

hypothesize
Thus, individuals experiencing low strain are hypothesized to have a lower than average risk of illness and psychological disturbance.
We hypothesize that a burial or an offering may have been removed from this trough.
Our verb results confirm the joint roles of informativeness and limited resources hypothesized in the introduction.
From each one we can hypothesize a structural element along with all its properties and variable parameters.
All variables are coded with the hypothesized pro-multicultural response high.
Therefore, we can hypothesize that severe droughts induce leaf shedding and flushing in the tropical rain forest.
It can be hypothesized that males seem to require both visual and volatile cues.
We next hypothesize that individual or classroom level of poverty will not explain this classroom aggression contextual effect.
It is hypothesized that the presence of these structures is a factor helping the parasite to grow in a variety of hosts and tissues.
We hypothesize an explanation in terms of the idiosyncratic and systematic factors associated with differences in portfolio composition, demographics, and fund operation.
One could hypothesize the existence of microorganisms that can tolerate this level of sulphuric acid that have not yet been discovered.
The existence of such signals in our own species has been hypothesized from these observations.
By implication, it is also hypothesized that agroforestry systems perform the above functions better than sole cropping systems of annual agricultural crops.
First, we hypothesize that these shocks have induced residential resorting, which should increase the allocative efficiency with which local public goods are consumed.
Specifically, he hypothesized that large (latent) groups are difficult to mobilize.
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