hypothesize

[ US /haɪˈpɑθəˌsaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
    Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
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How To Use hypothesize In A Sentence

  • To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
  • A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon. Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
  • Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that... Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Morgan hypothesizes that the mound shape was first outlined by a line of posts set in a wall trench, which served as a retaining wall for the fill.
  • In the dictyopterans species, however, intermediate features of granulocytes and spherulocytes led them to hypothesize a developmental relationship between both, as postulated by Gupta.
  • This trophic reorganization is hypothesized to be an important contributor to declines in populations of seabirds and marine mammals, because lipidpoor gadids and flatfishes generally replaced lipid-rich fish species in the Gulf of Alaska food web.
  • However, we hypothesised that release of BP7033Br ALK with free phosphonic group could be more important in in vivo system because of the presence of phosphodiesterases in serum. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Even so, Mammalodon was a fairly specialized mysticete that lived about ten million years after the hypothesized time of origin for its group. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • This paper introduces a new cognitive theory-Dual Coding Theory, which hypothesizes the use of two representational systems-one verbal, the other non-verbal, in the process of reading.
  • He hypothesized that basal primates were visually directed predators of fauna on slender branches, a milieu that favored a wide field of stereopsis and clawless, prehensile hands for visually tracking and grasping prey.
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