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to think of or suggest ideas about what is possibly true or real; to form or suggest a theory about something
Many scientists have theorized about the possibility of life on other planets.
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Recent Examples of theorized
In a clip from the episode posted to Miller’s Instagram account, Flavin theorized — without evidence — that children of Hollywood celebrities are more likely to come out as transgender because of poor, overly-permissive parenting.
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Samantha Riedel, Them., 20 Oct. 2025
One fan theorized Scott may have gotten too close to his pyrotechnics and burned his hand after video showed the rapper shaking his hand before walking off stage.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
During this period, Reines and a Los Alamos co-worker, Clyde Cowan, started to work on detecting neutrinos, a subatomic particle that had been theorized in the 1930s but, in the mid-1950s, had not been proven to exist.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
Fans have already theorized that several tracks on the new album are about Swift's now fiancé, Travis Kelce.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
Those atoms then could bind together, just as Democritus had theorized more than 2000 years before, into the molecules and larger structures that composed our macroscopic world.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
In 1921 Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara theorized that two vortices spinning through fluid (which is exactly what tropical cyclones are) could come close enough to each other to begin orbiting a common central point.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
The Fujiwhara effect explained Back in 1921, Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara published a paper that theorized two storms spinning near each other could start rotating together around a common center point.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
While former sheriffs have theorized that a group of local boys attacked her, an ominous photograph found a thousand miles away led her family to wonder if she had been abducted alongside a young boy.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Samantha Riedel, Them., 20 Oct. 2025
One fan theorized Scott may have gotten too close to his pyrotechnics and burned his hand after video showed the rapper shaking his hand before walking off stage.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
During this period, Reines and a Los Alamos co-worker, Clyde Cowan, started to work on detecting neutrinos, a subatomic particle that had been theorized in the 1930s but, in the mid-1950s, had not been proven to exist.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
Fans have already theorized that several tracks on the new album are about Swift's now fiancé, Travis Kelce.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
Those atoms then could bind together, just as Democritus had theorized more than 2000 years before, into the molecules and larger structures that composed our macroscopic world.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
In 1921 Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara theorized that two vortices spinning through fluid (which is exactly what tropical cyclones are) could come close enough to each other to begin orbiting a common central point.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
The Fujiwhara effect explained Back in 1921, Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara published a paper that theorized two storms spinning near each other could start rotating together around a common center point.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
While former sheriffs have theorized that a group of local boys attacked her, an ominous photograph found a thousand miles away led her family to wonder if she had been abducted alongside a young boy.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for theorized
speculated
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Laurence reported on experiments with uranium-235 at Columbia University and speculated about nuclear research going on in Germany.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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In five games this year, Jones has thrown for 1,404 yards, six touchdowns and four interceptions, and some have speculated that there could be a brewing quarterback controversy in the Bay.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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