hypothesis
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A Sussex Police spokesperson said the investigation remained open, and the "current hypothesis" was that it was "a tragic accident, with no third-party involvement".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Their hypothesis was confirmed when footage of a Ying Yang Twins performance went viral in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The "capture" hypothesis meanwhile postulates that the moons are asteroids from the outer Solar System that were captured by Mars' gravity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
When he asked Anthropic’s coding tool to take a crack at the infamous Riemann hypothesis, Jarred Sumner had no idea how much progress it would make on the 167-year-old conjecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
This back and forth movement between theory and evidence, hypothesis and experiment has come to seem so familiar that it is hard for us to grasp that Galileo was doing something fundamentally new.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Some medical researchers let AI models take the lead alongside human lab workers to gather information, stress-test hypotheses, interpret data and spit out plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But there are several hypotheses, says Dr Alex Gofton, a tick expert who led a recent study into the allergy.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It also puts forward hypotheses about why this belly-brain choreography exists.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
The system can also incorporate additional details, such as reaction conditions or expert hypotheses, provided as text.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
They are interested solely in confirming highly dubious theoretical hypotheses by the logic of analogy and induction, and make no attempt at refutation or intersubjective testing.’
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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