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What is the verb for hypothesiser?

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hypothesise
  1. (transitive) To believe or assert on uncertain grounds.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It allows you to hypothesise a supernatural entity to explain phenomena, but doesn't allow you to investigate said entity.”
      “We hypothesise that alcohol, particularly when drunk in binges, acts as a catalyst on acute ischaemic heart diseases, possibly by being synergetic to other triggering factors.”
      “They do not deny the observations that led others to hypothesise dark energy, but they do deny the conclusion.”
hypothesize
  1. (US) Alternative form of hypothesise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Researchers hypothesize the increased incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders could be related to the increased mercury exposure.”
      “I much prefer to hypothesize theories on my own versus the author vomiting out a new spin on things after every tiny detail.”
      “Its critics hypothesize a sadistic world of human crop, engineered super-armies, and Frankenstein's monsters.”
hypothesizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypothesize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It must be noted that the reasoning just quoted hypothesizes an unmonopolized supply of consumer and capital goods.”
      “Wolf hypothesizes a cause-and-effect relationship between women's liberation and society's ideal of beauty.”
      “In this regard, Longley hypothesizes that the historical tensions between French Canadians and English Canadians may be at the root of the issue.”
hypothesises
hypothesized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The authors hypothesized their common origin from an Atlantic refugium after the last glaciation.”
      “This series of steps is hypothesized to produce the regular, long-distance migratory patterns observed in many species around the world.”
      “We hypothesized that this was due to wild-type protein inherited by the spores.”
hypothesised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hypothesise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle hypothesised that space was filled with invisible ether.”
      “If one event is observed or hypothesised, one can only seek its cause in terms of another observed or hypothesised event.”
      “They hypothesised that what was killing baker's yeast was actually a substance in the yeast.”
hypothesising
hypothesizing
  1. present participle of hypothesize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Their marker order can be easily derived from Catarrhini ancestor hypothesizing a pericentric inversion involving the entire short arm.”
      “They favored a myoepithelial origin, hypothesizing that the myoepithelial cells enlarge and merge together to form a syncytium.”
      “You can test that proposition by hypothesizing the same transaction that is now before the Court as occurring yesterday.”
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