Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To assert as a hypothesis.
- intransitive verb To form a hypothesis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form hypotheses. Also hypothesise, hypothetize.
- To assume as a hypothesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US to
hypothesise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
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Examples
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One reason for this phenomenon, the authors hypothesize, is that indulgence guilt is a “hot” emotion, leading to intense but momentary pangs of conscience.
Primary Sources 2007
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One reason for this phenomenon, the authors hypothesize, is that indulgence guilt is a “hot” emotion, leading to intense but momentary pangs of conscience.
Primary Sources 2007
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We shall "hypothesize" that all the immigrants would be peaceful; if they weren't then crime and/or security measures would destroy the rich country.
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Stanley Kubrick did not "hypothesize" a doomsday device, they actually existed.
Strangelove 2006
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If Obama wanted to hypothesize to make a point, why not make up an organization name as well instead of naming an actual and opposing political group and "hypothesize" about those danged furriners controlling their message?
Jihad Monitor 2010
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She said she would not "hypothesize" whether she would support Lyons heading Rio Nuevo.
unknown title 2009
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She said she would not "hypothesize" whether she would support Lyons heading Rio Nuevo.
unknown title 2009
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Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Debate is not about a bunch of catty, uninformative, "Fox-News"-like blabber about occasional spelling mistakes, errors in academic trivia and how their knowledge in NewSpeak do's-and-don'ts (e.g. don't use "hypothesize" for anyone other than the originator of an idea no matter how far buried in the recesses of time, apparently) empowers them with a metaphysical prescience to evaluate in some small way who is 'serious' in an academic field in absence of mindful studiousness and profound contemplation of the (un)read material.
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He's A) misunderstood what "hypothesize" means, B) took my usage of "blasphemous" out of context and C) misread "Massimo Pallottino hypothesized in 1979 that Tarχies refers to Tages ..." to mean that I somehow credit Pallottino "for the origins of the legend of Tages".
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