hypothesis
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"It was in our Danish material that we first detected a signal. That gave us a concrete hypothesis, which we were then able to investigate in larger datasets," says Flemming Damgaard.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
That’s the hypothesis of one of the world’s shrewdest and most respected analysts of geopolitics and energy, Cambridge University political economy professor Helen Thompson.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026
For multinational corporations, this creates a phenomenon Stratford calls the “frown curve” hypothesis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Subject lines include “Recognizing the need for fasting,” “Mice blood age affects Alzheimer’s brain changes,” and “A casual hypothesis about epigenetics.”
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
It is from this line of thinking that we get, it would seem, the first reference in English to an hypothesis as a theory that needs to be tested.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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