How to Use hypothesis in a Sentence

hypothesis

noun

• The results of the experiment did not support his hypothesis.
• Their hypothesis is that watching excessive amounts of television reduces a person's ability to concentrate.
• Other chemists rejected his hypothesis.
• Isaac Newton initially argued against a parabolic orbit for the … comet of 1680, preferring the hypothesis of two independent comets, one for the inbound and one for the outbound leg. However, Newton later showed that the orbit of the comet could indeed be fit by a parabola.
  — Daniel C. Boice and Walter Huebner, "Physics and Chemistry of Comets",
• If the groomer still finishes by latching on, then that would be strong support for the hypothesis.
  — Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
• Any idea, no matter how good, can go bad, and the simulation hypothesis is no different.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
• His hypothesis, which will surprise no one who has seen his films, is that the problem chiefly lies in the failure to reckon honestly with the past.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• More exhaustive testing is needed to check this hypothesis.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2022
• Those born last, the hypothesis suggests, are more likely to be risk-taking attention seekers with strong senses of humor.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 16 Mar. 2022
• But some archaeologists’ commitment to the hypothesis means the field now has a substantial amount of catching up to do.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
• One was hypothesis driven, in that it was limited to all the structures that are known to be one or two connections removed from the olfactory nerves in the nose.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• Freitas floated the Lyme hypothesis to a rheumatologist, who felt the joint pain and hand swelling looked more like rheumatoid arthritis.
  — Zhen Wang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2022
• To test that hypothesis, researchers in Sweden laid out two sets of traps: one set baited with Streptomyces, and the other with control substances.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2022
• But despite the lack of early traction, what the team learned from its most passionate early customers was that the team’s initial hypothesis was right—that video was severely underutilized at work.
  — Steven Li, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• Our hypothesis here is that larger organizations don't have the cyber-manpower to scale with the organization.
  — Eoin Keary, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• Bloodwork results furnish evidence for Elsbeth’s roofie hypothesis; Mac had high levels of a substance called scopolamine in her system.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
• The coming days and weeks will put that hypothesis to the test.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
• And my hypothesis is that this has changed the way the midterm electorate thinks.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The hypothesis is that our brain uses two modules to try to make sense of the world.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
• The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• While there are many hypotheses, no one had been able to figure it out.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
• If the hypothesis was true, how would the virus jump from feral dogs to people?
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
• The Harvard study put this hypothesis to the test and found the opposite.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 18 July 2022
• That was my hypothesis, that Shane or his mother got her the purse.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2021
• The problem with the good faith version of a lab-leak hypothesis is that there isn’t a single one.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
• Of course, that hypothesis needs to be tested on the proving ground of the campaign trail.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 22 July 2024
• But to her, the hypothesis about the coats being a signal to mothers is a little shaky.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
• One hypothesis is that the virus simply does not leave.
  — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
• But the big questions about other worlds had to be answered with a shrug and a hypothesis.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024