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Theorized

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.

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theorized

vb. (en-past of: theorize)

Usage examples of "theorized".

Professor Galen, he recalled, had theorized that the Sky Divers were no more than a symbolic representation of cultural growth and entropy.

He asserted that the tablet told the story of an ancient battle, one so significant, he theorized, that its survivors felt compelled to record it for later generations.

He even detected what he theorized was a body count up in one corner, though the corpses were curi­ously represented by what looked to be human eyes placed in trees.

A fellow diver theorized that he had been seized by an insurmountable panic and suddenly broke for the surface.

Matt theorized that the concept of an arbitrary end to space must somehow be bound up with egocentrism.

What had happened, they theorized, was that the ocher triggered an association with the feared and hated renegades.

They did not actually know, but they theorized that a fall would propel the suit through the earth's crust, where a man might, in theory, sink until he emerged on the opposite side of the globe.

It is a kind of teleportation, which physicists have long theorized as possible.

It was theorized that only a small percentage survived, but these were the ancestors of Vulcans.

Tiam theorized, studying his nails, which had survived the assault unscathed.

Despite all the wondrous events of the last hour, she found she could not ignore the wounded look on Milo’s face as his father theorized about the scientific importance of the infant Q.

Judging from the sheer density of stars in sight, he theorized that he and Q were either very close to the galactic core of the Milky Way or else sometime very distant in the past, when the expanding universe was much smaller, and the interstellar distances much shorter, than they were in his own time.

The psychologist even theorized that if she ever did get full repairs, Kalia II would be submerged and Kalia I would become the sole, dominant, voluntary personality again.

It was always theorized that we'd find at least the remains of them sooner or later.