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hypotheses

CEFR: C1

Provisional propositions or academic theories put forward to explain phenomena before testing.

Synonyms

postulates
theories

Common Collocations

test hypotheses
formulate hypotheses
competing hypotheses

Example Sentence

Astrophysicists formulated competing hypotheses regarding the nature of dark matter in galactic clusters.

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