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theorize about (someone or something)

To speculate, conjecture, or make guesses about someone or something. Everyone has been theorizing about what the company's next product might be. If I'm going into business with someone, I don't want to have to speculate about them, their past, or their motivations—I want concrete facts.
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theorize on (something)

To speculate, conjecture, or form a hypothesis about something, especially in manner that is abstract or without supporting evidence. These analysts who spend so much time theorizing on the effects of these economic changes will have on the working class have no idea what it's like to actually live through them. We've theorized on several different methods of enhancing cellular regeneration, but it will be many years before technology will prove whether or not they could be viable.
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theorize about someone or something

to hypothesize about someone or something; to conjecture about someone or something. Let's not waste time theorizing about Ted. He won't change. I can only theorize about what happened.
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theorize on something

to make a theory about something. There is no point in theorizing on something when you have all the empirical evidence you need to draw a conclusion. He spent the afternoon theorizing on the origin of the universe.
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Incompletely theorized agreements are, therefore, less viable when the Supreme Court adjudicates constitutional issues because the doctrine of stare decisis is particularly weak when a court is not subject to review by a higher court and is interpreting a foundational document.
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Unless mass education which teaches obligations as well as rights can be successfully established on the basis of a mainstream national identity, properly theorized and evoking commitment, an open, market-based economy, able to hold its own against foreign competition, is much less likely.
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Defend: Albert Einstein helped prove the existence of atoms by explaining Brownian motion, or the jerky motion of particles inside a water droplet, Einstein theorized that water molecules, although you can't see them, are constantly in motion.
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Biologists have theorized that the colors represent some fancy adaptation to changing light conditions, but Elfie Stocker-Worgotter of the University of Salzburg in Austria proposes a quite different explanation.
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More than a century ago, Charles Darwin wrote detailed accounts of mimicry in animals and theorized that many creatures respond to the emotional states of their comrades.
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Astronomers have for several years suspected a link between gamma-ray bursts, theorized to be the birth cries of black holes, and supernovas, whose aftermaths can leave behind either a neutron star or a black hole (SN: 7/10/99, p.
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Beginning with natural numbers and covering the realms of infinity from prime numbers to parallel lines, the authors explore how mathematicians have tried to grasp the ungraspable, Profiles of individuals range from Pythagoras, who theorized about irrational numbers, to Georg Cantor, who proved that infinity can come in different sizes.
The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
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