Examples of theorize in a Sentence
Many scientists have theorized about the possibility of life on other planets.
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Fans have already theorized that several tracks on the new album are about Swift's now fiancé, Travis Kelce.
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Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
Benson and Evans also theorize that the animal could represent a stem-squamate, the predecessors to all snakes and lizards.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
Those atoms then could bind together, just as Democritus had theorized more than 2000 years before, into the molecules and larger structures that composed our macroscopic world.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
In 1921 Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara theorized that two vortices spinning through fluid (which is exactly what tropical cyclones are) could come close enough to each other to begin orbiting a common central point.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
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Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
Benson and Evans also theorize that the animal could represent a stem-squamate, the predecessors to all snakes and lizards.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Oct. 2025
Those atoms then could bind together, just as Democritus had theorized more than 2000 years before, into the molecules and larger structures that composed our macroscopic world.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
In 1921 Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara theorized that two vortices spinning through fluid (which is exactly what tropical cyclones are) could come close enough to each other to begin orbiting a common central point.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Theorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theorize. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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theorize
verb
the·o·rize
ˈthē-ə-ˌrīz 
theorized; theorizing
: to form a theory : speculate
theorizer
noun
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