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Discover Ludwig"hypothesizing" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when talking about making an educated guess based on the available evidence. For example: "I am hypothesizing that the cause of the issue is something to do with the faulty wiring."
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hypothesizing
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Present participle of hypothesize
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Originally, we were hypothesizing that humans working together with computers could solve biochemistry problems that neither could alone.
Hypothesizing a molecular magnetic field acting on individual atomic magnetic moments, he was able to construct mathematical descriptions of ferromagnetic behaviour, including an explanation of such magnetocaloric phenomena as the Curie point.
Thus, there was no point to hypothesizing such a special fluid as caloric.
And the psychiatrist, hypothesizing and probing in his one-man investigation, comes up with stories and counter-stories and sees which one he can make stick.
Kerry later said, more than once, that this was just "hypothesizing" — that "there will not be American boots on the ground with respect to the civil war".
One of the novel's most exasperated reviewers, Daniel Mendelsohn, characterized "A Little Life" as a hallmark of "a culture where victimhood has become a claim to status," hypothesizing that the "unending parade of aesthetically gratuitous scenes of punitive and humiliating violence" must appeal to readers by "confirming their preexisting view of the world as a site of victimization".
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A large fraction of those who had read at most small portions of the Principia and depended on others for their knowledge of it most likely saw Newton as having hypothesized inverse-square attraction and hence as in fact following the method of hypotheses.
The authors hypothesize that "[c]onsumers seem to believe that closing off debt accounts, regardless of balance size, is important in motivating them to persist in the goal of eliminating their debts", which implies that an individual may have a higher probability of repaying loans by focusing on the size of the debts rather than that of the interest rates.
They write:Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with childrearing, and assuming that children are normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in real estate prices will have a negative price effect on current period fertility.
In the light of the foregoing observations, it appears that if it is possible that there are omnipotent agents of the sort in question, then possibly, one of them endeavors to make the feather move at t, while the other endeavors to keep it motionless at t, even given their hypothesized necessary areas of epistemic and moral agreement.
Zimmermann hypothesized that the Arabic Plotinus and Proclus would have formed parts of a large 'metaphysics file' (also containing works of Alexander of Aphrodisias) assembled by the Kindi circle.
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