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[ verb ] to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Examples : "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps." Used in print (Peter Wyden, "The Chances of Accidental War"...)The experts are thus forced to hypothesize sequences of events that have never occurred , probably never will - but possibly might . (Sister Claire Marie Sawyer, Some Aspects of...)It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social_system when the population as_a_whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered . (William H. Ittelson and Samuel B. Kutash,...)Some predictions had been made concerning factors R , N , I and Co on these inventories which appeared to be directly related to control and security aspects of personality functioning which were hypothesized as being of importance in differential Kohnstamm reactivity . |
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