hypothesis
Example Sentences
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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.
The WHO's investigations have proved inconclusive, pending further evidence, with all hypotheses still on the table.
From Barron's
The team plans to test their hypothesis in the lab.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
