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

Guessing, supposing and suspecting
approximate
as muchidiom
conjecture
consider
deem
draw
fall
guess
jump
jump to conclusionsidiom
mark
mark someone down as something
misjudge
misjudgment
pluck
presuppose
supposably
surmise
think of something
unguessable

Examples of hypothesized

hypothesized

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Our verb results confirm the joint roles of informativeness and limited resources hypothesized in the introduction.
The increased saliency of words used as single-word utterances, and words occurring in final position, has been hypothesized to facilitate their acquisition.
All variables are coded with the hypothesized pro-multicultural response high.
It can be hypothesized that males seem to require both visual and volatile cues.
It is hypothesized that the presence of these structures is a factor helping the parasite to grow in a variety of hosts and tissues.
Each of the models described above is formulated to enforce a hypothesized constraint on the counts in the contingency table.
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.
Specifically, he hypothesized that large (latent) groups are difficult to mobilize.
It was therefore hypothesized that similar stimuli might also increase hormonal stress responses in children.
When the bootstrapping process finished, we had a ranked list of hypothesized words for each of the eleven semantic classes.
Therefore, we hypothesized that those children affected would have a preference for the foods they actually ate in a visual ' line-up ' of all the items.
It is hypothesized that the more the number of other units that have adopted the policy, the higher the probability of policy adoption.
It might be hypothesized that those who initiate contact with professional helpers before the onset of psychosis will have shorter treatment delays once psychosis occurs.
The recursive interconnections linking brain regions are hypothesized to explain part of the co-morbidity within anxiety disorders.
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