as in saying
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof
if we hypothesize that current population trends continue for the next 50 years
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Recent Examples of hypothesizing
There’s another line of hypothesizing that says that development of red fall color discourages insects from feeding on leaves in the fall.
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Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Nov. 2025
By hypothesizing that a phase of relentless, exponential expansion preceded and set up the hot Big Bang, inflation implies the following.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
The notion that vaccines cause autism was born out of a fraudulent 1998 study, hypothesizing that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine caused intestinal inflammation, which, in turn, led to the development of autism.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025
That’s why some people are hypothesizing that vitamin D can slow aging.
—Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2025
Another 2023 study similarly found that companies spent the most on products that offered the least benefits, with researchers hypothesizing that this spending helped drive patients to ask for products their doctors would have been less likely to prescribe.
—Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
As law enforcement continue the search, online sleuths began hypothesizing about the suspect's escape from the scene, leading some to the Provo Airport (PVU), a public-use regional airfield less than 15 minutes drive from UVU’s campus.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypothesizing
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Reyes defended the compensation, saying it was negotiated in good faith.—
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But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other officials disputed the DHS claims, saying videos showed the woman driving away from agents, not aiming at them.—
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In estimating that online sales would result in overall annual profits of about $30-90 million, the Legislative Services Agency is assuming there would be an accompanying decrease in retail lottery sales.—
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Launching a military operation and then assuming responsibility for governance shifts Washington toward a closed, coercive model of power – one that relies on force to establish authority and is prohibitively costly to sustain over time.—
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Crumb defended the work as criticism of those stereotypes, presuming that people familiar with his art would get the point.—
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Nicholas Boggs spent decades researching this thoughtful and well-paced biography, consulting archival material and even interviewing, after presuming him dead, a crucial surviving player in Baldwin’s life story.—
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Prosecutors released his booking photo, believing that there may be more victims.—
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The defendant and his mother frequently argued in the weeks between Wei Hou’s release from prison and the victim’s murder, with Zhu Hou believing her son was stealing cash from her to fund his drug habit, Holland said.—
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The makeup of the roster and the team's second-highest preseason ranking in Wieber's seven seasons has her thinking the group could create a special season.—
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As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.—
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“Hypothesizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypothesizing. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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