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to think of or suggest ideas about what is possibly true or real; to form or suggest a theory about something
Many scientists have theorized about the possibility of life on other planets.
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Recent Examples of theorized
But nearly 30 years earlier, astronomer Percival Lowell first theorized the existence of the planet, partially based on irregularities in the orbit of Uranus.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Wen, who is a hedge fund and cryptocurrency investor, doesn’t know who is potentially behind his father’s disappearance, but theorized to the LA Times that contractors who previously worked on his father’s home may have kidnapped him.
—Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
And if PBHs make up a smaller percentage of dark matter than currently theorized, then the rates would be even lower.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
What this shows us is that the growth and evolution of galaxies could be much more complex than previously theorized.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The researchers theorized that social relationships broke down under multiple pressures.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
The earliest Greek philosophers focused their attention upon the origin and nature of the physical world; later philosophers have theorized about the nature of knowledge, truth, good and evil, love, friendship, and much more.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
The Kreutz group is named for Heinrich Kreutz, a German astronomer who determined that several notable nineteenth-century comets traveled in similar orbits and were fragments of a large comet that broke apart (perhaps around the time of the last ice age, it has since been theorized).
—Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
The fourth dimension, which originated in the eighteenth century and was mathematically theorized in the nineteenth, both described diagrammable space and functioned as an expression of time.
—Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Wen, who is a hedge fund and cryptocurrency investor, doesn’t know who is potentially behind his father’s disappearance, but theorized to the LA Times that contractors who previously worked on his father’s home may have kidnapped him.
—Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
And if PBHs make up a smaller percentage of dark matter than currently theorized, then the rates would be even lower.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
What this shows us is that the growth and evolution of galaxies could be much more complex than previously theorized.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The researchers theorized that social relationships broke down under multiple pressures.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
The earliest Greek philosophers focused their attention upon the origin and nature of the physical world; later philosophers have theorized about the nature of knowledge, truth, good and evil, love, friendship, and much more.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
The Kreutz group is named for Heinrich Kreutz, a German astronomer who determined that several notable nineteenth-century comets traveled in similar orbits and were fragments of a large comet that broke apart (perhaps around the time of the last ice age, it has since been theorized).
—Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
The fourth dimension, which originated in the eighteenth century and was mathematically theorized in the nineteenth, both described diagrammable space and functioned as an expression of time.
—Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for theorized
speculated
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Things got just a bit chippy in the top of the sixth when Webb fired a four-seam fastball into the ribs of Dalton Rushing, who many speculated had made a disparaging comment at Jung Hoo Lee during Tuesday’s game when the Giants outfielder was hurt sliding home.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Amid the ongoing retrenchment in pay-TV operators, some Wall Streeters have speculated that Comcast and Charter could one day combine.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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