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 hypothesizing

hypothesizing

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

These output-based studies provide some grounds for hypothesizing that there may be age-related differences in children's input processing of unfamiliar accents.
Several authors posit a direct relationship between borrowing and code-switching, hypothesizing that borrowed markers initially enter the language through codeswitching.
More analysis is needed before hypothesizing about differences in evolutionary rate between subgenera.
Although these causal explanations do not require any signaling functions, they do not preclude them, and proximate mechanisms can shed light on adaptive hypothesizing.
The theory adopted here deals with that issues by hypothesizing that the group may or may not feel invulnerable depending on threat perception.
It explores the types of transfer occurring under each mode, hypothesizing about the linkages between institutional arrangements and transfer processes and outcomes.
It will be contingent but not arbitrary: nature resists, and that resistance constrains our hypothesizing.
This leads to the view that explanation is primarily a process of hypothesizing causes of events and expectation failures, rather than deriving them from known factors.
In this vein, we will examine the impact of alcohol use and smoking, hypothesizing that the higher the percentage of smoking and alcohol use, the shorter the life-span.
Once a meaning for a word is learned, this entire sequence of ' hypothesizing ' and ' selecting ' a referent does not recur for every presentation of the word.
Badgaiyan offers an interesting explanation by hypothesizing that the motor part may be inhibited, and thus, suppressed by overactivity in the affective part.
Although such a hypothesis is not the only one available, rival hypotheses - the free-will and soul-making theodicies - are sufficiently controversial to make hypothesizing about equipotency not unreasonable.
Those are the only values worth hypothesizing.
Alternative explanations of the data based on hypothesizing underlying syntactic or semantic relations are investigated through analyses of pronoun case marking and of verbs with prototypical agent- patient roles.
The two hold lengthy debates hypothesizing what will happen if humanity is faced with a new super-powered race of humans.
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