hypothesize
hahy po thuh sahyz
- v to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- The authors hypothesize that the decline in breast cancer rates was largely due to the sudden stoppage of hormone therapy.
- Cockroaches, they hypothesize, use just two pieces of information to decide where to go: how dark it is and how many of their friends are there.
- That leads the authors to hypothesize that statins may benefit the body in many different ways.