hypothesis
Example Sentences
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Real science knows that if a hypothesis can’t be consistently proven, it’s false.
From Literature
“I have asked that very same question. My current hypothesis is that it will, but ultimately, it will be a wait-and-see situation.”
From Literature
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission for decades has overseen regulation of prediction markets—or event contracts, as we refer to them—that help market participants hedge risk, aggregate information and test hypotheses about future outcomes.
It seems like it should be easy to test this hypothesis: Show that the African Four Successes followed the Three Secrets while the nonsuccesses did not.
It can take an official announcement—of a purge, promotion or policy shift—to validate a hypothesis.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
