hypothesize

Related to hypothesize: hypothesise, scientific method

hypothesize about (something)

To speculate or wonder about something. Oh, they're just hypothesizing about what happened—there's no way they could know for sure.
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hypothesize on (something)

To speculate or wonder about something. A murmur went through the stands as people hypothesized on which dog would be named the winner.
See also: hypothesize, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hypothesize about something

to speculate about something; to make guesses about something. Don't waste time hypothesizing about what happened. There is no point in hypothesizing about what happened when we don't know the actual truth.
See also: hypothesize

hypothesize on something

to conjecture on the origin or nature of something. We sat around hypothesizing on the origin of life.
See also: hypothesize, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
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  • speculate on (something)
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We hypothesize that the mechanism of virus circulation is related to the social structure of the reservoir: bank voles are territorial and avoid encounters with conspecifics during the breeding season but share nests during winter.
We hypothesize that determination of both male sex and pathology of the progeny by PrOO will initially cause a positive male-biased dose response, which, after having reached a threshold, will be followed by a negative one due to disproportional loss of male-specific conceptuses and sublethal X-linked genes (21).
Feldman hypothesizes that as night breathing problems get worse, weakened elderly people, unlike the otherwise healthy rats, can't rouse themselves when they stop breathing.
Maybe, he hypothesizes, a miniature ecosystemexisted inside the ark.
Unfred, who is also director of external studies at Christian Heritage College, hypothesizes in a September 1984 article, "Asteroidal Impacts and the Flood Judgment,' that the postdeluvian detritus of this canopy could explain most of what is hurtling through space.
Once the computer comes up with a plausible structure, it hypothesizes many series of component movements and calculates how far the robot could move as a result of each series, Lipson adds.
Firth hypothesizes that people with Asperger syndrome lack theory of mind as a result of a disturbance of their brain networks.
He hypothesizes that an extra 1.5 hours of sleep per night might produce weight losses of 3 to 4 percent.
If gaining weight in middle age leads to health problems, then getting fat in childhood "might be far worse," he hypothesizes.
Sharpe of Queen's Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh hypothesizes that unidentified chemicals in sludge caused the diminished testis size and the hormone effects.
He also hypothesizes that a dopamine drought in children who inherit a single copy of the strong COMT variant can also foster psychotic symptoms.--B.B.
Wang's team hypothesizes that some obese people get more pleasure from eating than people of normal weight do.
Wood hypothesizes that in some people, the proportion of methylotrophs among mouth bacteria may be low, leading to chronically high amounts of the stinky sulfur compounds.