How to Use hypothesis in a Sentence

hypothesis

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  • The results of the experiment did not support his hypothesis.
  • Their hypothesis is that watching excessive amounts of television reduces a person's ability to concentrate.
  • Other chemists rejected his hypothesis.
  • The coming days and weeks will put that hypothesis to the test.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And my hypothesis is that this has changed the way the midterm electorate thinks.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The hypothesis is that our brain uses two modules to try to make sense of the world.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The hypothesis is that the first shot is your body getting the building block of a protein.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • While there are many hypotheses, no one had been able to figure it out.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
  • One hypothesis is that the virus simply does not leave.
    — Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2022
  • If the hypothesis was true, how would the virus jump from feral dogs to people?
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Past pandemics have paved the way for the zoonotic hypothesis.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But the big questions about other worlds had to be answered with a shrug and a hypothesis.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2019
  • The working hypothesis is that this is what happened in the most recent case.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But researchers did not have the data to back up this hypothesis.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
  • What is your hypothesis about how to solve this problem?
    — Aaron Vick, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But to her, the hypothesis about the coats being a signal to mothers is a little shaky.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
  • His hypothesis is that the woman was accused by a neighbor with a grudge.
    — Nelson Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The problem with the good faith version of a lab-leak hypothesis is that there isn’t a single one.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That was my hypothesis, that Shane or his mother got her the purse.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The process of going from a hypothesis to consensus can take years.
    — Jordan Nutting, USA TODAY, 7 July 2020
  • And researchers have some pretty good hypotheses for why.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • The aim may be to work out a structure, answer a question, or test a hypothesis.
    — John Drake, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Our leading hypothesis is these warm eddies are a refuge for them.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
  • But the study authors concede there is a problem with this hypothesis.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • On Friday, there were clues to support both of those hypotheses.
    — Julian E. Barnes, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Scholars offer hypotheses that provide new ways of looking at the work.
    — Ellen T. Harris, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Scientists have a hypothesis about what that might have been.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • My hypothesis is that my freezer doesn’t get cold enough.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • That hypothesis may have been backed by news from credit card issuers.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022

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