How to Use hypothesize in a Sentence

hypothesize

verb

• Psychologists hypothesized that his odd behavior was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
• And what Jim Scott hypothesized was that in fact, that’s not at all the case.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
• That led him to hypothesize the same might apply for the virus that had just emerged from Wuhan.
  — Lisa Du, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• And much the same could be hypothesized about the 2020 election.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Nov. 2017
• The unique position of the wound led the researchers to hypothesize that the frill was punctured from the back.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Kingston then points an open hand to the TV and babbles some more as if to hypothesize on the next season.
  — Amir Vera, CNN, 7 June 2019
• The study authors hypothesize that the metals found in the e-liquid leached from the heating coil in the vape pen.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Both produced the kinds of flows that had been hypothesized.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
• Such plaque build-up is hypothesized to be a cause of Alzheimer's disease.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Jones and his co-authors hypothesize that the metals found in the e-liquid leached from the heating coil in the vape pen.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
• The researchers hypothesized that the closer the injured muscle was to the body the more likely the surgery would occur.
  — Jennifer Vilcarino, ABC News, 3 July 2024
• Some studies have hypothesized tiny clots in the cells that persist for a long time may be the cause of some symptoms.
  — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• In addition, these hypothesized alien colonists couldn’t just sweep through the Milky Way once and leave it at that.
  — Seth Shostak /, NBC News, 11 June 2018
• Van Rentergem and his coauthors hypothesize that the sulfur that absorbs the sound waves of the sonar, almost like a black hole for sound.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
• And a great many people inside State are now hypothesizing about what the goal of all this is.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• The team hypothesized that biliverdin might make the lizards unpalatable to predators, but birds aren’t deterred by the stuff.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• Some people on both Twitter and Reddit have hypothesized that Kai is the sperm donor for Oz.
  — Gabe Bergado, Teen Vogue, 7 Sep. 2017
• Hood provides it and then hypothesizes that, gone with half of Williams’s vision must also be half of his brain.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 19 July 2017
• The researchers hypothesized that the higher a person’s PDHI score, the lower their risk of being among the deceased.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• These calls vary in intensity and speed, which some experts hypothesize may have to do with the type of threat the prairie dog is facing.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• The cause of his death was thought to be starvation, though Krakauer and others have hypothesized about what led him to that state of starvation.
  — The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 27 July 2019
• The team hypothesizes a catastrophic flood killed most of the trees in the forest and preserved the root system as fossils.
  — Kelly Murray, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
• This mission would send a rover to the polar region of the Moon to look for, and study, ice deposits that scientists hypothesize are there.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2018
• The bank hypothesized whether a sudden uptick in birth rates in the 2000s, driven by the advent of IVF treatment, could be replicated now.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024
• Stephen Hawking, the titan of cosmology who passed away March 13 at the age of 76, made his name hypothesizing about the past—all of it.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2018
• There is no reason to hypothesize about a secret plan when a plan is there to be analyzed.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 18 July 2024
• This led the researchers to hypothesize that tubeworm larvae were squirming through crevices below the seafloor to reach new vents.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2023
• Scholars hypothesize that it may have been hidden around the time of the Spanish invasion of 1521 C.E.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
• This revealed clues about distinct gaits and stances, and the researchers used this data to hypothesize that the different sets of tracks belong to H. erectus and P. boilei.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2024
• The researchers hypothesize that all of the stars in the close vicinity of the supermassive black hole were binary systems that have since merged, Peissker said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025