to theorize
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6.1
- verb
- /ˈθiːəraɪz/
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teorizar sobre
- The search for meaning in history is itself an effort to theorize the radical changingness of our experience.
- theorize about society
- theorize about people
- theorize about the world
So gender ideology theorises that your gender is just a feeling.
- So gender ideology theorises that your gender is just a feeling.
- And that's, in a sense, what we've been theorizing a bit about tonight.
- Glaucon and Adamantis are working with an under theorized notion of justice.
- They don't want to theorize that as being a good thing.
- And there's a lot of theorizing about that.
- There's been so much, you know, there's there's philosophers who actually theorize about this in terms of speed.
- And you can really get in your head about trying to theorize or come up with the best plan.
- We have the dunamis theoretiquet, the potential to theorise about the world.
- It doesn't actually play out in practice as it is theorized.
- All we have are the phenomena that we experience, observe, can, can theorize about and arrange in certain ways.
Examples
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Well, agreed, but it's a huge mistake to theorize before one has data.
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So, Pam, what did the police theorize happened to Dakota?
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And you can really get in your head about trying to theorize or come up with the best plan.
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There have been numerous attempts in a variety of disciplines to theorize about this level of social action.
Academic text (1993) -
Some scientists theorize that we may have even domesticated ourselves.
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The question is hypothetical and asks the witness to theorize on future events.
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Other institutional characteristics have been theorized to have an impact on student retention, but the evidence is not clear.
Academic text (2008) -
These blue holes, people are theorizing, might be portals to another world, another dimension.
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Scientists theorize that if such an event were to occur, The effects of the solar storm would have much more far reaching, damaging and deadly consequences.
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The researchers decided to theorize about the origins of the unusual phenomenon after observing initial data.
Synonyms
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2.7
To think something is true without clear proof
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4.8
To think about possible reasons or outcomes when there are not enough facts
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4.9
To show that something is likely true because of evidence
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7.5
To suggest that something is true as the start of an argument
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7.2
To suggest an idea about why something happens that can be tested
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7.5
To suggest that something is true to explain facts
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6.9
To form an idea in your mind about something
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7.6
To form an opinion without enough proof
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8.1
Think or talk about big ideas like life and truth
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7.9
An idea based on little evidence
Suggest a possible explanation without strong evidence
Antonyms
How Theoretical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Theorize comes from the same root as theory, a word that once meant 'to look' or 'to consider', so to theorize is to form an idea or careful guess to explain something.