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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
theorize
verb
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▪ Small wonder that there was little time or taste for theorizing about ideal forms of secondary education.
▪ Those who theorize about how families work have an explanation that would apply to the Medlows.
▪ Unable to see beneath a volcano, researchers can only theorize about what causes the pulsing tremors they hear within it.
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▪ According to spy's theory, the Ardakkeans had been transformed - by some beneficial mutation, he theorized - into super-beings.
▪ But this, again, was theorizing in advance of the facts.
▪ He theorizes other former soldiers in the same situation may have died prematurely.
▪ Nowhere is this paradox more apparent than in the attempts of philosophers to theorize about the self.
▪ Officials theorize that the truck bottomed out, catching on the highway.
▪ Rossignol and Phillis theorize that this pattern of caffeine use may reflect an unsuccessful attempt by the women to self-medicate with caffeine.
▪ Such is Darwin's species origin theorizing in mid-September 1838.
▪ Those who theorize about how families work have an explanation that would apply to the Medlows.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theorize

Theorize \The"o*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Theorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Theorizing.] [Cf. F. th['e]oriser.] To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
theorize

1630s, perhaps a formation in English from theory + -ize. Related: Theorized; theorizing.

Wiktionary
theorize

alt. 1 To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject. 2 To speculate. vb. 1 To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject. 2 To speculate.

WordNet
theorize
  1. v. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose]

  2. construct a theory about; "Galileo theorized the motion of the stars"

  3. form or construct theories; "he thinks and theorizes all day"

Usage examples of "theorize".

Out of these questions emerge the concerns of innumerable feminists that postmodernism and deconstruction may very well theorize to an abstraction the lived experience of women or divert attention away from mistreatment in the rush to revel in the more playful eccentricities of theory and ambiguity.

The synergistic psychologists theorized that for some unknown reason matrix-talents had enormous difficulty coming to terms with the paranormal side of their natures.

They further theorize that this narrow corridor would have provided an avenue through which plants, animals, and humans could have passed from Beringia into other unglaciated regions of North America.

He was buried in a bookit was one of those evangelical novels theorizing that God lets some people into heaven but leaves others behindand he seemed fairly engrossed in it, perhaps wondering if he would be in the former group or the latter.

Baumgere chose Castlebough for his home has fueled the fire of speculation, for there are few regions around the Entide Sea as fertile for such theorizing as the Caledon Hills, with its uncommon history and many real mysteries.

It is theorized that she was originally not a Danaid but a water-goddess.

The older Indian sites, they theorized, were more likely to show evidence of the migration of the followers of Lehi--the ancestors of the Lamanites and the Nephites--to the New World hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, as chronicled in the Book of Mormon.

And if we must speak about it, then we must include at the least the following three points, not because these points actually describe Reality, but because they act as a curb and restraint to our always-inadequate theorizing.

To what extent are expectations and beliefs structuring purportedly objective, scientific observations, let alone theorizing, as a whole?

She theorized that he probably had a deficiency of rubriblasts in his bone marrow, which caused the blood-need he felt from time to time.

Introspection is given only marginal treatment in modern psychology textbooks, and in both psychology and the brain sciences, theorizing about the nature of introspection is at a rudimentary stage in comparison with other types of cognition.

In both psychology and the brain sciences, theorizing about the nature of introspection remains at a primitive level in comparison with theorizing about other cognitive processes such as perception and memory.

Some theorized that the sightings and other strange occurrences were the result of mass hysteria.

Andy privately theorized Becky had played some peripheral part in the long-ago drama.

I took refuge in wild theorizing, if Angels be the next higher being from Man, perhaps the Duck had 'morphos'd into some Anatine Equivalent, acting as my Guardian, purely, as an Angel might Or, perhaps, as Ducklings, when their Mother is not available, will follow any creature that happens along, so might not an Automaton, but newly aware of its Destiny as a Duck, easily fasten upon the first human, say, willing to remain and chat, rather than go running off in terror, and come to define this attachment as Love?